Are our fears of AI running amuck and killing random persons based on unfounded assumptions?
On Monday, August 25, 2014 3:20:24 PM UTC-4, cdemorsella wrote: > > AI is being developed and funded primarily by agencies such as DARPA, NSA, > DOD (plus MIC contractors). After all smart drones with independent > untended warfighting capabilities offer a significant military advantage to > the side that possesses them. This is a guarantee that the wrong kind of > super-intelligence will come out of the process... a super-intelligent > machine devoted to the killing of "enemy" human beings (+ opposing drones I > suppose as well) > > This does not bode well for a benign super-intelligence outcome does it? > ------------------------------ > *From:* meekerdb <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *To:* > *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2014 12:04 PM > *Subject:* Re: AI Dooms Us > > Bostrom says, "If humanity had been sane and had our act together > globally, the sensible course of action would be to postpone development of > superintelligence until we figured out how to do so safely. And then maybe > wait another generation or two just to make sure that we hadn't overlooked > some flaw in our reasoning. And then do it -- and reap immense benefit. > Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to pause." > > But maybe he's forgotten the Dark Ages. I think ISIS is working hard to > produce a pause. > > Brent > > On 8/25/2014 10:27 AM > > Artificial Intelligence May Doom The Human Race Within A Century, Oxford > Professor > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/artificial-intelligence-oxford_n_5689858.html?ir=Science > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
