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Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards

Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards

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As technology rapidly progresses, some proponents of artificial intelligence believe that it will help solve complex social challenges and offer immortality via virtual humans. But AI'€™s critics are sounding the alarm, going so far as to call its development an '€œexistential threat'€ to mankind. Is this the stuff of science fiction? Could the '€œTerminator'€ become reality, or will these fears prevent the next technological revolution?

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This Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Has a Few Concerns

The computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.

Saturday, May 23, 2015
Stuart Russell
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

The possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues.

Friday, May 13, 2016
Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky
Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?'

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks, says a group of leading scientists.

Thursday, May 1, 2014
Stephen Hawking
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
Saturday, April 1, 2000
Wired
Bill Joy
Risks From General Artificial Intelligence Without an Intelligence Explosion
There are dangerous aspects of developing general AI, besides the Intelligence Explosion scenario.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Future of Life Institute
Viktoriya Krakovna
Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence

It'€™s likely that machines will be smarter than us before the end of the century'€”not just at chess or trivia questions but at just about everything, from mathematics and engineering to science and medicine. What risks lie ahead?

Thursday, October 24, 2013
Gary Marcus
Against
Don't Fear Artificial Intelligence
The freedom to offend the powerful is not equivalent to the freedom to bully the relatively disempowered.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Time Magazine
Ray Kurzweil
Why We Need 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence'
In this paper we will look at some of the reasons for needing the development of 'conscious' or 'self-aware' Artificial Intelligence, also known as 'Strong-AI' or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the apparent risks involved in doing so. Throughout this paper it will become apparent that the need for this development is closely related to taking control of the risks.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Mind Construct
Hans Peter Willems
Google on Artificial-Intelligence Panic: Get a Grip
Google’s artificial-intelligence researchers believe there are more urgent matters than the potential destruction of humanity at the hands of superintelligent machines, and that anyone talking about how AI will destroy us all is being “preposterous.”
Monday, June 8, 2015
Wall Street Journal
Amir Mizroch
Why the World's Most Intelligent People Shouldn't Be So Afraid of Artificial Intelligence
To view the debate over AI purely in terms of humans vs. the machines misses the point. It’s not us vs. them in a race for mastery of planet Earth. What’s more likely is some form of hybrid evolution in which humans remain in charge but develop augmented capabilities as a result of technology.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Washington Post
Dominic Basulto
Is Artificial Intelligence Really A Threat To Humanity?
After years of sci-fi movies showing artificial intelligence through characters like J.A.R.V.I.S., C-3PO, and the T-1000, the concept of AI is finally knocking on our doors.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Tech Times
Christian de Looper, Tech Times, August 28, 2016
Artificial Intelligence Is A Tool, Not A Threat
Fear of AI comes from some fundamental misunderstandings of the nature of the undeniable progress that is being made in AI, and from a misunderstanding of how far we really are from having volitional or intentional artificially intelligent beings, whether they be deeply benevolent or malevolent.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Rethink Robotics
Rodney Brooks
Background
AI: 15 Key Moments in the Story of Artificial Intelligence
The quest for artificial intelligence (AI) began over 70 years ago, with the idea that computers would one day be able to think like us. New approaches to AI, coupled with advances in technology, mean that we may now be on the brink of realising those pioneers’ dreams.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
BBC
BBC
It's Time to Take Artificial Intelligence Seriously
The age of intelligent machines has arrived—only they don't look at all like we expected.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Wall Street Journal
Christopher Mims
Robotics: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Nature
Nature
An Open Letter: Research Priorities For Robust And Beneficial Artificial Intelligence
Open letter urging responsible and socially beneficial research and use of AI.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Future of Life Institute
Future of Life Institute
Apple, Google and Facebook are investing in artificial intelligence: What is their plan and who are other key players?
Here are 10 tech giants that are investing in artificial intelligence
Monday, February 22, 2016
TechWorld
Christina Mercer
Current Technology
Atlas, The Next Generation
A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings, is specialized for mobile manipulation, electrically powered and hydraulically actuated.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World
For almost 60 years, AI researchers have predicted that AI is right around the corner, yet until a few years ago it seemed as stuck in the future as ever. There was even a term coined to describe this era of meager results and even more meager research funding: The AI Winter. Has anything really changed?
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Wired
Kevin Kelly
Google Develops Computer Program Capable of Learning Tasks Independently
‘Agent’ hailed as first step towards true AI as it gets adept at playing 49 retro computer games and comes up with its own winning strategies
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The Guardian
Hannah Devlin
Amelia: IPsoft's New Artificial Intelligence Can Think Like A Human, And Wants Your Job
Amelia is an artificial intelligence. She exists, in commercial form, today. And she wants to take over about a quarter of all jobs within two decades.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Huffington Post
Michael Rundlem
Will Machines Eliminate Us?
People who worry that we’re on course to invent dangerously intelligent machines are misunderstanding the state of computer science.
Friday, January 29, 2016
MIT Technology Review
Will Knight
Economic Impact
AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs
Experts are deeply divided on how advances in AI and robotics will impact the economic and employment picture over the next decade.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Pew Research Center
Aaron Smith And Janna Anderson
Why AI Could Destroy More Jobs Than It Creates, And How To Save Them
Automation may be destroying jobs faster than it's creating new ones, but all hope isn't lost. TechRepublic spoke to MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson on changing the course of the future.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Tech Republic
Nick Heath
Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs
We need to let robots take over. They will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can. They will do jobs we can’t do at all. They will do jobs we never imagined even needed to be done. And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand who we are.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Wired
Kevin Kelly
Now, Even Artificial Intelligence Gurus Fret That AI Will Steal Our Jobs
It’s time quit worrying about Terminators and Transformers and focus on the more likely possibility: that machines will kill our jobs long before they kill us.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Forbes
Robert Hof
Weaponized AI
Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter From AI & Robotics Researchers
We believe that AI has great potential to benefit humanity in many ways, and that the goal of the field should be to do so. Starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Future of Life Institute
Future of Life Institute
Humans, Not Robots, Are the Real Reason Artificial Intelligence is Scary
Intelligent weapons are too easily converted by software engineers into indiscriminate killing machines.
Friday, August 14, 2015
The Atlantic
Zach Musgrave And Bryan W. Roberts
Do We Need To Ban Killer AI?
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and a host of other science and tech luminaries today added their names to a document that calls for stopping a weaponized AI arms race in its tracks before countries and companies are forced to compete with each other to build deadlier and deadlier autonomous weapons. But not every scientist thinks AI should be banned from having kill orders.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Popular Mechanics
Andrew Moseman