What is Marlows Paradox?
Marlow’s Paradox refers to the idea, proposed by some most notably nanotech pioneer K. Eric Drexler that humans should place decisions vital to their survival as a species in the hands of a non-human intelligence (an NI or “nanointelligence,” for example). It has also been proposed that such non-human intelligences be given emotions in order to make them more like humans. [7] The paradox arises from the fact that we will soon confront “Singularity:” a world in which faster-than-human decisions and actions will be required for our survival and yet “We cannot entrust our fate to machines without emotions, for they have no compassion; we cannot entrust our fate to machines with emotions, for they are unpredictable.” Basically, the paradox states that there seems to be no way out of the situation, because machines cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of humans [8].
