Ben Goertzel Revisits Omohundro's Basic AI Drives, Identifying Six Hidden Assumptions

SingularityNET founder Ben Goertzel published a five-part blog series revisiting Steve Omohundro's 2008 'Basic AI Drives' argument, which posits that sufficiently advanced AI will develop universal goals like self-preservation. He breaks the argument down into six hidden assumptions in an effort to refine the influential theory.

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