I see a lot of possible threats, Terminator scenario being the least likely, no more than a zombie apocalypse. On the other hand there are a lot of possible negative scenarios, in fact we have seen how automated AI traders have made messes in the trading market, we may lose the video/audio as a reliable evidence, picture misinformation when you can't even rely on video or audio, news are unreliable already, and you can always have some footage checked by some adversarial AI but is an arms race and the one with more resources, i.e. better AI will have the truth.
The AI in science research is also something to keep an eye on, so far we got science trying to understand and engineering using that for practical uses, with AI the thing shifts, we get results having no idea why or how, I can see a future where we have scientist trying to reverse-engineer AI results to understand how the hell it got some result, that could be a huge lose of control in our part as species.
AI do have control over us already, when you use it to make one to increase viewing time, buying decisions, etc. You don't need robots with guns to lose control, that's the childish idea of it. You may train an AI to increase sells of product A and maybe the strategy involve getting the user depressed, we may not even know it, the devs may not even plan it.
AI also give tools unavailable otherwise, to "make decisions" over huge amounts of data that a human couldn't correlate, it will, if not yet, be used to calculate "social scores", threat assessments, economical and health risk of all of us, we'll have no idea how those scores got made, the purpose of AI is to delegate the algorithms to the machine, so we don't have to do it, we could try to understand it afterwards but lets face it, we wont.
An AI may be "instructed" to increase profit and end up doing it by crashing of at least damaging the market, although we humans do a fine job on that front XD
There is a lot of possible negative scenarios, to be an alarmist and assume the Matrix is coming is as foolish and childish as saying there is no problem at all and should discard any apprehension.
And by the way, you don't need strong AI to make a mess, you don't need an AI that "wants" to screw everything to actually do it, the MS one didn't "want" to be a psychopathic racist, just end up like that, imagine that one rating credit scores on the background instead of embarrassing MS on Twitter.
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I see a lot of possible threats, Terminator scenario being the least likely, no more than a zombie apocalypse. On the other hand there are a lot of possible negative scenarios, in fact we have seen how automated AI traders have made messes in the trading market, we may lose the video/audio as a reliable evidence, picture misinformation when you can't even rely on video or audio, news are unreliable already, and you can always have some footage checked by some adversarial AI but is an arms race and the one with more resources, i.e. better AI will have the truth.
The AI in science research is also something to keep an eye on, so far we got science trying to understand and engineering using that for practical uses, with AI the thing shifts, we get results having no idea why or how, I can see a future where we have scientist trying to reverse-engineer AI results to understand how the hell it got some result, that could be a huge lose of control in our part as species.
AI do have control over us already, when you use it to make one to increase viewing time, buying decisions, etc. You don't need robots with guns to lose control, that's the childish idea of it. You may train an AI to increase sells of product A and maybe the strategy involve getting the user depressed, we may not even know it, the devs may not even plan it.
AI also give tools unavailable otherwise, to "make decisions" over huge amounts of data that a human couldn't correlate, it will, if not yet, be used to calculate "social scores", threat assessments, economical and health risk of all of us, we'll have no idea how those scores got made, the purpose of AI is to delegate the algorithms to the machine, so we don't have to do it, we could try to understand it afterwards but lets face it, we wont.
An AI may be "instructed" to increase profit and end up doing it by crashing of at least damaging the market, although we humans do a fine job on that front XD
There is a lot of possible negative scenarios, to be an alarmist and assume the Matrix is coming is as foolish and childish as saying there is no problem at all and should discard any apprehension.
And by the way, you don't need strong AI to make a mess, you don't need an AI that "wants" to screw everything to actually do it, the MS one didn't "want" to be a psychopathic racist, just end up like that, imagine that one rating credit scores on the background instead of embarrassing MS on Twitter.