Humans as Pets?
Related, and in continuation to The Challenge of Controlling an Advanced AI. At this point in my story, I'm assuming a got-out-of-the-box-AI scenario, where no singleton (a single self-coherent dominant entity) was created, but a large number of philosophically and values-system distinct Artificial General Intelligence agents (AGI, or AI for short) have emerged. In order for my story to make sense to present-day humans (including myself), I must nonetheless have a human presence, since 10-dimensional hermit crabs might be harder to relate to.
The problem is that compared to a sufficiently advanced AI, the human thought-speed (capped as it is around 200 Hz/neuron) would make us potentially slow as molasses compared to them. So even if they are benevolent and do not turn us into grey goo or computronium, why would they subject themselves to the agony of interacting with slow, limited beings such as Homo Sapiens?
Few scenarios make sense to me.
One scenario is that some AIs would simply keep humans around as glorified pets, out of some form of ancestor-nostalgia, for amusement, or perhaps as slightly more reactive Bonsai. I'm having a hard time imagining how those humans would react/interact/treat the AI. Pick your time-frame: it could be mere weeks or years since the Singularity, or thousands of generations.
Continued by How does an AI keep its human pets happy?
Do you think there would be a large subset of humans who would be happy to fulfill this role, and aim to please their AI overlords, or would there be near-general aversion and hostility?
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