Question: Why can't we just make a child AI and raise it?
Answer: A potential solution is to create an AI that has the same values and morality as a human by creating a child AI and raising it. There’s nothing intrinsically flawed with this procedure. However, this suggestion is deceptive because it sounds simpler than it is.
If you get a chimpanzee baby and raise it in a human family, it does not learn to speak a human language. Human babies can grow into adult humans because the babies have specific properties, e.g. a prebuilt language module that gets activated during childhood.
In order to make a child AI that has the potential to turn into the type of adult AI we would find acceptable, the child AI has to have specific properties. The task of building a child AI with these properties involves building a system that can interpret what humans mean when we try to teach the child to do various tasks. ［https://humancompatible.ai/ People］ are currently working on ways to program agents that can cooperatively interact with humans to learn what they want.