RE: What do we have to offer? Why are we needed? I think we need to answer this quickly.
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...it is basically a really advanced self evolving "expert system"..."
Stephan Wolfram says they're just weighting text strings, or images, or checking off lists, not intelligent at all. It's not conscious. A paramecium is more intelligent than a weighting algorithm, because it actually makes decisions for itself. We have to set parameters that trigger actions for a device, just like Rube Goldberg mechanisms. We have to tell the AI to take a certain action upon a certain stimulus or threshold, and the problem - if the AI does something like wipes out Cleveland - isn't the AI. It's whoever told the AI to wipe out Cleveland, and programmed it to use mass murder devices to do so when that condition was met and that trigger was pulled.
AI doesn't value anything. It's programmers apply their values when they provide algorithms by which to weight data, and it weights data by those algorithms. It can't come up with a plan. It can't understand what 2+2 means. There is no intelligence whatsoever in an AI. All the intelligence is the programmers' that set the thresholds, choose the stimulus, or code the algorithms. If an AI is deciding whether or not to shoot someone, whoever programmed it has already made that decision, because AI can only do what it's told, what it's programmed to do.
It's the programmers that need to be convinced not to wipe Cleveland off the map, or not shoot us if we're wearing black hoodies at night in Baltimore, or whatever problematic act the AI has potential to do.