Artificial Intelligence has three basic forms General, Narrow, and Super. It is the later that many thought leaders worry about, because of its immense potential to surpass our own intelligence by an order of magnitude.
Why worry? Who cares? Well all of us at some point in the near future because when we code AI we need a basic premiss or value, something like do good or improve the quality of life for humanity. The problem is that fully fledged Super AI may well carry out that command and remove the barriers to this end, perhaps eliminating a certain group of people who are perceived as being the problem! The other problem is that Super AI will do everything much better than we can, so why keep us around? If we are kept"around" what will we do, how will we structure our time? Our work, and our arts are much of who we are as a species and they give us meaning, without them will we become lost?
We can't slow down because it will not be done multilaterally, and one supper power cannot risk another getting Super AI first, we are in a AI race! Governments will try and use it to control populations, armies will use it to create weapons, financiers will use it to make profits, and big corporations will use it to outcompete competitors. Where does that leave the man (or woman) in the street? What will happen to democracy, how will we live when a machine controls our access to money and food?
Mars is beginning to look more attractive by the month, perhaps thats why Elon Musk gives himself a 70% chance of going there himself!! Makes you think, what does he really know that he's not telling us?
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