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Just as the fate of the mountain gorilla depends on human goodwill, the fate of humanity could depend on the actions of a future machine superintelligence. [4] The plausibility of existential catastrophe due to AI is widely debated.
- Loss of Control and Understanding
- Making Ai Friendly
- Ways and Means
- Science Unfiction
- Forever Bystanders
Imagine systems, whether biological or artificial, with levels of intelligence equal to or far greater than human intelligence. Radically enhanced human brains (or even nonhuman animal brains) could be achievable through the convergence of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science, while greater-than-human m...
An AI programmed with a predetermined set of moral considerations may avoid certain pitfalls, but as Yudkowski points out, it’ll be next to impossible for us to predict all possible pathways that an intelligence could follow. A possible solution to the control problem is to imbue an artificial superintelligence with human-compatible moral codes. If...
“If we could predict what a superintelligence will do, we would be that intelligent ourselves,” Roman Yampolskiy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Louisville, explained. “By definition, superintelligence is smarter than any human and so will come up with some unknown unknown solution to achieve” the goals we assi...
This all sounds very sci-fi, but Alfonseca said speculative fiction can be helpful in highlighting potential risks, referring specifically to The Matrix. Schneider also believes in the power of fictional narratives, pointing to the dystopian short film Slaughterbots, in which weaponized autonomous drones invade a classroom. Concerns about dangerous...
Another key vulnerability has to do with the way in which humans are increasingly being excluded from the technological loop. Famously, algorithms are now responsible for the lion’s share of stock trading volume, and perhaps more infamously, algorithms are now capable of defeatinghuman F-16 pilots in aerial dogfights. Increasingly, AIs are being as...
Jun 10, 2023 · Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the world of artificial intelligence signed an open letter warning that A.I. could one day destroy humanity.
May 25, 2023 · Artificial intelligence algorithms will soon reach a point of rapid self-improvement that threatens our ability to control them and poses great potential risk to humanity
Oct 8, 2019 · No physical quantity in the universe can be infinite, and that includes intelligence, so concerns about superintelligence are overblown. Perhaps the most common response among AI researchers is to say that “we can always just switch it off.” Alan Turing himself raised this possibility, although he did not put much faith in it:
May 30, 2023 · Artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity, experts - including the heads of OpenAI and Google Deepmind - have warned. Dozens have supported a statement published on...
Nov 14, 2023 · In the first episode of a new, six-part series of Tech Tonic, FT journalists Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill ask how close we are to building human-level artificial intelligence and whether...
