What AI Needs Most

Contrary to what many people might believe, AI does not need better chips or nuclear power. Demand for AI is so high that the invisible hand will find a way to ensure AI has enough food to continue growing at such an astounding clip. No - AI needs a more ancient technology: an ethical operating system. Just as there is not one software operating system, so, too, there are a myriad of ethical operating systems - or simply schools of ethics. An amoral hyper-advanced artificial general intelligence is almost by definition the greatest threat to humanity imaginable. Getting AI to comply with a globally acceptable ethical operating system - almost like Uniform Commercial Code - will be one of the biggest and most rewarding challenges of our lifetime. Let this post be a call for all politically-inclined, activist-minded ethical philosophers to rise and take action. Now is our time to shine.