Hi Luke! There's a TL;DR at the bottom if you don't have time to read, but this is one of my life's greatest concerns.
As an Electrical Engineering major who joined a fraternity, two things have become major interests in life: Technology & The Singularity and International Corporate & State Politics.
My biggest concern for the future of AI is not that we won't be able to create a system that is safe and preserves mankind, but rather that one of two things happens:
Corporations (which, by making profit, have more $ to invest in R&D) with a profit incentive build a powerful AI and release it before it is safe but after it is self developmental in order to beat out competition to selling a product. How concerned are you about this, and why/why not?
Secondly, Im concerned about a nation's military (with who knows how much black budget funding) producing such a powerful AI and using it for war purposes to destroy all other nations (the ultimate national security) while keeping its citizens from knowing it has done so through the use of memory manipulation, virtual reality, and who knows what other population control technology that will exist at the time. How concerned are you about this and why/why not?
TL;DR, Im not afraid of the machine, but I am afraid of the man behind the machine. What type of group is most likely to create the machine and how can we prevent the machine from being used for selfish/evil purposes?
P.S. Check out a book called "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". The most terrifying thing Ive ever read and something along the lines of what I think is likely to happen, except that some elite group will be controlling the machine.
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Hi Luke! There's a TL;DR at the bottom if you don't have time to read, but this is one of my life's greatest concerns.
As an Electrical Engineering major who joined a fraternity, two things have become major interests in life: Technology & The Singularity and International Corporate & State Politics.
My biggest concern for the future of AI is not that we won't be able to create a system that is safe and preserves mankind, but rather that one of two things happens:
Corporations (which, by making profit, have more $ to invest in R&D) with a profit incentive build a powerful AI and release it before it is safe but after it is self developmental in order to beat out competition to selling a product. How concerned are you about this, and why/why not?
Secondly, Im concerned about a nation's military (with who knows how much black budget funding) producing such a powerful AI and using it for war purposes to destroy all other nations (the ultimate national security) while keeping its citizens from knowing it has done so through the use of memory manipulation, virtual reality, and who knows what other population control technology that will exist at the time. How concerned are you about this and why/why not?
TL;DR, Im not afraid of the machine, but I am afraid of the man behind the machine. What type of group is most likely to create the machine and how can we prevent the machine from being used for selfish/evil purposes?
P.S. Check out a book called "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". The most terrifying thing Ive ever read and something along the lines of what I think is likely to happen, except that some elite group will be controlling the machine.
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