Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?

Uh, sure, if it's quick.

Yeah, yeah, cool.

Over the last few months, I've been cornering some very smart people.

To ask what I thought was a simple question.

Um, that's a big question.

It's hard to know how to answer questions like that.

The question is one I think a lot of us have right now.

Should we be worried about artificial intelligence?

But the answers from the greatest minds in AI surprised me.

I mean, I'll tell, so I'll tell you, like, I'll tell you a story. Basically, it's sort of a parable.

They replied with fantastical tales, as if I'd asked them about the great mysteries of the universe.

So, what does this have to do with AI in making AI?

It was like ASOP's Fables, AI Edition.

Okay, should I start from the top?

Suppose in the future there is an artificial intelligence.

One guy told a parable of a future super-intelligent AI that could cause an apocalypse.

Let's give this super-intelligent AI a simple goal.

Produce paper clips.

Via paperclip?

And then there was another woman.

So, the octopus thought experiment goes like this.

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