AGI might be smart... but will it be wise?

Think of AGI as a genius child that has memorized everything but experienced nothing. Like the young prodigy in the movie Good Will Hunting, whose psychologist warns he is "smarter than wise."

“If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. But I’ll bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel... You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that ceiling.”

Similarly, we like to dismiss AI as a system that has only learned from acquired data and has never experienced the Sistine Chapel. But let’s not forget that 99% of humans around the world have never had the privilege of experiencing it either. Much of our wisdom comes from the collective lessons experienced by millions of others over thousands of years.

We would also be wise to remember that AI is not only trained on all of humanity’s wisdom—it is, unfortunately, also trained on all of humanity’s stupidity...