What are your views on superintelligent AI? Survey

There's lots of talk about whether we'll eventually get outsmarted by AI.

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* By what year do you guess there’s at least 50% chance that AI can outperform humans at all intellectual tasks?

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* If such superhuman AI appears, will it be a good thing?

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* Do you want there to be superintelligent AI, i.e., general intelligence far beyond human level?

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* If superintelligence arrives, what would you like to happen to humans?

Humans should continue to exist

Humans should be replaced by AI descendants

Humans should merge with machines into cyborgs

Humans should be uploaded

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* If superintelligence arrives, who should be in control?

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* If you one day get an AI helper, do you want it to be conscious, i.e., to have subjective experience (as opposed to being like a zombie which can at best pretend to be conscious)?

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* What should a future civilization strive for?

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* Do you want life spreading into the cosmos?

Max Tegmark's book Life 3.0 explores twelve scenarios for what might happen in coming millennia if superintelligence is/isn't developed. Please rate how desirable you find each one.

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* Libertarian utopia: Humans, cyborgs, uploads and superintelligences coexist peacefully thanks to property rights.

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* Benevolent dictator: Everybody knows that the AI runs society and enforces strict rules, but most people view this as a good thing.

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* Egalitarian utopia: Humans, cyborgs and uploads coexist peacefully thanks to property abolition and guaranteed income.

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* Gatekeeper: A superintelligent AI is created with the goal of interfering as little as necessary to prevent the creation of another superintelligence. As a result, helper robots with slightly subhuman intelligence abound, and human-machine cyborgs exist, but technological progress is forever stymied.

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* Protector god: Essentially omniscient and omnipotent AI maximizes human happiness by intervening only in ways that preserve our feeling of control of our own destiny and hides well enough that many humans even doubt the AI's existence.

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* Enslaved god: A superintelligent AI is confined by humans, who use it to produce unimaginable technology and wealth that can be used for good or bad depending on the human controllers.

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* Conquerors: AI takes control, decides that humans are a threat/nuisance/waste of resources and gets rid of us by a method that we don't even understand.

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* Descendants: AIs replace humans, but give us a graceful exit, making us view them as our worthy descendants, much as parents feel happy and proud to have a child who's smarter than them, who learns from them, and then accomplishes what they could only dream of—even if they can't live to see it all.

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* Zookeeper: An omnipotent AI keeps some humans around, who feel treated like zoo animals and lament their fate.

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* 1984: Technological progress toward superintelligence is permanently curtailed not by an AI but by a human-led Orwellian surveillance state where certain kinds of AI research are banned.

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* Reversion: Technological progress toward superintelligence is prevented by reverting to a pre-technological society in the style of the Amish.

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* Self-destruction: Superintelligence is never created because humanity drives itself extinct by other means (say nuclear and/or biotech mayhem fueled by climate crisis).

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* Which scenario do you prefer overall?

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* What future do you want?

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* Please feel free to add any other thoughts here that weren't adequately captured by the questions above.

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* Are you male or female?

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* What is your age?

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* What is the highest level of school you have completed or the highest degree you have received?

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* By what year do you guess there’s at least 50% chance that AI can outperform humans at all intellectual tasks?

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* If such superhuman AI appears, will it be a good thing?

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* Do you want there to be superintelligent AI, i.e., general intelligence far beyond human level?

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* If superintelligence arrives, what would you like to happen to humans?

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* If superintelligence arrives, who should be in control?

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* If you one day get an AI helper, do you want it to be conscious, i.e., to have subjective experience (as opposed to being like a zombie which can at best pretend to be conscious)?

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* What should a future civilization strive for?

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* Do you want life spreading into the cosmos?

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* Libertarian utopia: Humans, cyborgs, uploads and superintelligences coexist peacefully thanks to property rights.

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* Benevolent dictator: Everybody knows that the AI runs society and enforces strict rules, but most people view this as a good thing.

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* Egalitarian utopia: Humans, cyborgs and uploads coexist peacefully thanks to property abolition and guaranteed income.

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* Protector god: Essentially omniscient and omnipotent AI maximizes human happiness by intervening only in ways that preserve our feeling of control of our own destiny and hides well enough that many humans even doubt the AI's existence.

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* Enslaved god: A superintelligent AI is confined by humans, who use it to produce unimaginable technology and wealth that can be used for good or bad depending on the human controllers.

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* Conquerors: AI takes control, decides that humans are a threat/nuisance/waste of resources and gets rid of us by a method that we don't even understand.

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* Zookeeper: An omnipotent AI keeps some humans around, who feel treated like zoo animals and lament their fate.

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* 1984: Technological progress toward superintelligence is permanently curtailed not by an AI but by a human-led Orwellian surveillance state where certain kinds of AI research are banned.

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* Reversion: Technological progress toward superintelligence is prevented by reverting to a pre-technological society in the style of the Amish.

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* Self-destruction: Superintelligence is never created because humanity drives itself extinct by other means (say nuclear and/or biotech mayhem fueled by climate crisis).

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* Which scenario do you prefer overall?

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* What future do you want?

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* Please feel free to add any other thoughts here that weren't adequately captured by the questions above.

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* Are you male or female?

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* What is your age?

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* What is the highest level of school you have completed or the highest degree you have received?

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* Are you an AI researcher? (Students also count)

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* Which of the following recent AI-related books have you read?

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* Optional: What is your name? (Won't be publicly shared.)

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* What is your email address?