What is comprehensive AI services (CAIS)?

Comprehensive AI services (CAIS) is a model of AI development which predicts that future advanced AI systems will function as tools for humans even as their capabilities increase drastically. This would be similar to our current world with many different computer programs that each does its own specialized tasks.

In such a world, AI will function to provide a variety of services including those needed for scientific research and development. In such a world the superintelligences will not be agentic with goals of their own, rather they will function under human decision making. Furthermore, they will not be general intelligences, reather they will each specialize in specific tasks

These different systems would be able to produce a superintelligent ecosystem providing much the same benefit that an aligned AGI could produce.

This could provide a safe future in two ways. First, these systems will be inherently more safe than an artificial general intelligence since they will be limited in the scope of their actions. Even an improved version of google maps doesn’t have a structure where taking over the world could be considered.

Second, with their help we would be powerful enough to stop a rogue artificial general intelligence from emerging as a threat A wide range of tools would expand human power to the point that humans would be able to identify and stop a new superintelligence from gaining power.