"If you were able to choose what an AI wants – the destinations toward which it steers – that might be good news for you. Or bad news, if you made a poor choice of destinations, or if some malicious person makes an AI that steers toward outcomes you dislike. But the problem facing humanity is not a problem of whether good people or bad people are in control of AI. No – we are facing an even harder problem: it’s much easier to grow artificial intelligence that steers somewhere then it is to grow AIs that steer exactly where you want."
January 1, 1970