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Godseed: Benevolent or Malevolent?

It is known that benign looking AI objectives may result in powerful AI drives that may pose a risk to the human society. We examine the alternative scenario of what happens when universal goals that are not human-centric are used for designing AI agents. We follow a design approach that tries to exclude malevolent motivations from AI’s, however, we see that even objectives that seem benevolent...

Royal Irish Benevolent Fund Society

It is proposed to establish in the Bengal Presidency a Branch of the Royal Irish Medical Benevolent Fund Society. The object of the Society is to relieve cases of distress among medical men, and their widows and orphans, in Ireland. It is supported by subscriptions from members of the Profession, raised by means of local " Branches," of which the Society has now 36?34 in Ireland; one in Bombay,...

Systems of Benevolent Utility Functions

This paper studies systems of utility functions in which each person’s utility depends on his or her own consumption as well as on the utilities of others. We consider the question of when a system of interdependent utility functions induces unique utility functions over allocations and identifies the class of transformations on interdependent utility functions that are equivalent in the sense ...