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Technology that performs at the level of superhuman intelligence and beyond already exists. As Harris explained, even with a machine that performs at the level of humans or a group of researchers, it’ll still work exponentially faster than them. Harris says, describing a machine like that, that “in one week, it can perform 20,000 years of human-level intellectual work.” So of course, it’ll be convenient and amazing to have artificial intelligence find the cure to disease and find the answers to a question almost instantaneously compared to a group of researchers who may take months to do so, but when does AI reach the point where it’s so smart, that it’ll have no problem disregarding human’s lives to do what it wants to do?

Within the first two minutes of Sam Harris’ TED Talk on artificial intelligence, I was reminded of many of the episodes in Black Mirror where advanced technology in which we can currently only dream of becomes abused and causes chaos. Technology is constantly becoming more advanced, efficient, and intelligent. Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence will one day become so intelligent, it’ll have the ability to function independently of a human’s control. Without regulation, one day robot’s will start fixing all our economic issues and research questions. Human will be almost or basically useless and free to roam the earth doing whatever, just depending on robot’s to keep the world spinning. And what will stop robots from viewing us as “ants” and not hesitating to take us out if we are in their way? I agree that technology has brought us very far and I do think it should continue advancing whether it is to cure Alzheimers or just make our daily life more convenient, but when does AI become dangerously advanced? How do we decide when AI will threaten the human species? When do we decide to put a stop to it?

Answer 1

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

AI is something that makes our life way easier then ancient times. AI devices percieves its environment and takes actions such that chances of successfully achieving its target is maximized .

Purely intelligent creatures, whether people or machines, are bad for humanity . Robots are not the main concern instead misaligned intelligence is the main concern as it requires no human assistance but only the internet connection . As long as AI is supporting human survival , it is good .The types of AI we have, including war machines, will primarily be dictated by profit for the companies that make them. Instead it should be used to eradicate global problems like poverty and malnutrition . But the day it goes against humans , the complete homo-sapeians species would be under the threat of extinction . Hence it is important to put a stop on expansion of AI at some point

Dangers from AI

1. The AI is programmed to do something devastating ( weapons)
2. The AI is programmed to do something beneficial, but it develops a destructive method for achieving its goal