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The Culture novels as a dystopia
A couple of people have mentioned to me: “we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence – utopias like the Culture novels”. And they’re right, AI can be tremendously positive…
This would be similar meddling to the Culture’s drones, which are human level AIs that have their personalities designed into them at creation, allowing only an acceptable range of behaviours. But the existence of post-scarcity in-vitro development means you could raise an army of clones if you wanted, and would be free to isolate them and indoctrinate similar beliefs. It seems likely that misaligned Minds are capable of predicting they’d lose any military action against the established core, so prefer toeing the line of acceptability or leaving Culture entirely.
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