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AI Safety: The Stamp-Collecting AI Thought Experiment

Computerphile · Explainer · 9 min · 2015 · YouTube title: Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile
Why it's here

Often pointed to as an accessible first introduction to AI safety and why a superintelligent AI could be dangerous.

What it covers

A Computerphile video in which Rob Miles warns against assuming a general AI will think like a human. He uses the thought experiment of a stamp-collecting AI to show how a goal-driven system could pursue its aim with dangerous results.