Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Requirements For FAI and Effective FAI

Requirements For FAI and Effective FAI

The requirements for FAI to be effective, both internally, to protect humanity against unintended consequence of the AI in question and externally to protect against other non-FAIs arising from whatever source are:

1. Friendliness - that an AI feel sympathetic towards humanity and all life, and seek for their best interests
2. Conservation of Friendliness - that an AI must desire to pass on its value system to all of its offspring and inculcate its values into others of its kind
3. Intelligence - that an AI be smart enough to see how it might engage in altruistic behaviour to the greatest degree of equality, so that it is not kind to some but more cruel to others as a consequence, and to balance interests effectively
4. Self-improvement - that an AI feel a sense of longing and striving for improvement both of itself and of all life as part of the consideration of wealth, while respecting and sympathising with the informed choices of lesser intellects not to improve themselves
5. First mover advantage - the first goal-driven general self-improving AI "wins" in the memetic sense, because it is powerful enough to prevent any other AI emerging, which might compete with its own goals.