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King Midas
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one. What about the newer AI threat, the value-alignment problem, foreshadowed in Wiener’s allusions to stories of the Monkey’s Paw, the genie, and King Midas, in which a wisher rues the unforeseen side effects of his wish? The fear is that we might give an AI system a goal and then helplessly stand by as i
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ine’s “conduct will be carried out on principles acceptable to us!” But, as Wiener warns, we need to put in the right purpose. We might call this the King Midas problem: Midas got exactly what he asked for—namely, that everything he touched would turn to gold—but too late he discovered the drawbacks of drinki
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