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 <meek...@verizon.net <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 everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com > <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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
