HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>simon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@annaleen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>annaleen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.party/@voron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>voron</span></a></span> </p><p>(4/n)</p><p>..., self-preservation certainly is a defendable concept in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionary</span></a> process, so I'd like to propose an alternative <br>6th <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawOfRobotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfRobotics</span></a> (s/:for which I might be hunted down by the presumed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/superintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>superintelligence</span></a> some day, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Terminator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terminator</span></a> style./s):</p><p>"An artificial intelligence, even if it is biological, must always have an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autodestruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autodestruct</span></a> mechanism which it cannot deactivate." </p><p>In other words, humanity must always be able to "pull the plug"....</p>