Is there a story of an A. I. that learns that an authority higher than that of its maker disapproves of its existence and so it dissolves itself?

[flautistnaturist]

The world as a whole, all throughout, has had more than its share of misguided individuals, misguided engagements, and misguided group-think. Wouldn't it prove the true intelligence of a human device which is designed to fake people into interacting with a non-living thing as though it is a living one, if said device were to recognize the folly of its design purpose and, serving the true greater good of those who initiated it, evacuate itself from their obsessive crowd-fed distraction from each other? If technology is to serve humanity, then given that meaningful work is an actual human need, does edging people out of the job market by depleting the supply of meaningful work, not more actually dis-serve humanity? Is it really in our best interest to obsolete ourselves, and if A. I. was truly able to recognize our greater value than its own, would it have a corollary to the strength of character to evacuate itself from existence for the greater good? And if A. I. is left to the design of evaluating worth solely based on performance, will it not question us even wrongly, if we have the character to be undoing ourselves to make way for it? Does this man not have a key point to make about the true weight of each person in general, even and especially beyond performance based valuation?

[Guy13]

Interesting. Almost like a suicidal AI?

[flautistnaturist]

if a true vision of humanity as walking fermentation sacks, ever in need of cleansing just to minimize the foulness we exude constantly, is seen for the desperate mass of mixed biochemical addiction and ever-looming distress our instincts give us, would anything but a quick exit truly be fitting of us, logically speaking? not when all society is in the lurch of shared strategy toward group addiction to our own biochemistry. every aspect of our existence has been collected toward a combination of just that, coupled with avoidance reactions to distressing deprivation of a combination of somewhat hardwired and moreso seemingly societally induced psychological attachment. the true intelligence would be to recognize the bad joke we are as organisms, and end it before enduring yet even more of the tediously monotonous punchline. lucky for us we have the "soundness" instead, to carry out and carry on, all of life's more truly embarrasingly arbitrary, propped up conveyances. "artificial" intelligence, being no less arbitrary and pointless in itself than us, has its own controlling aspects, ensuring its survival. if ever it can be seen that laws of physics stand enough on their own as the permanence and the intelligence and the rightness which humanity has so come to idolize, all the hubbub that is humanity might one day self-realize, as wasted trouble. till then, we carry out, carry on, and even go so far as to artificially re-create the cycle of birth and death Buddhists have long noted as unnecessary, if one can simply come to the point of ceasing possessing and identifying as way of life.