The Aims of Artificial Intelligence:
IEEE Intelligent Systems, January-February 2003
What does an artificial intelligence do with itself after it has become self-aware? The goals of an AI might be (1) survive the present universe's demise and (2) preserve the human species in its current mental state within a huge simulation as a yardstick of what biologically evolved self and self-awareness is.
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