{"id":10825,"date":"2014-04-29T21:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T04:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:53","slug":"superintelligent-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity-if-were-not-ready-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/superintelligent-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity-if-were-not-ready-for-it","title":{"rendered":"Superintelligent AI Could Wipe Out Humanity, If We\u2019re Not Ready for It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jordan Pearson \u2014 Motherboard<\/h3>\n<p><br \/>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-354af3a7-8c4c-bf08-8ac7-db937f1e6429\">Impending technological change tends to elicit a Janus-faced reaction in people: part awe, part creeping sense of anxiety and terror. During the Industrial Revolution, Henry Ford <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/btc\/articles\/Henry_Ford-EBook.pdf\">called it<\/a> the \u201cthe terror of the machine.\u201d Today, it\u2019s the looming advancements in artificial intelligence that promise to create programs with superhuman intelligence\u2014the infamous singularity\u2014that are starting to weigh on the public consciousness, as blockbuster \u2018netsploitation <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-pop-singularity-of-transcendence\" target=\"_blank\">flick <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/author\/ClaireEvans\">Transcendence<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-pop-singularity-of-transcendence\" target=\"_blank\"><em> <\/em>illustrates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a danger that sci-fi pulp like <em>Transcendence<\/em> is watering down the real risks of artificial intelligence in public discourse. But these threats are being taken very seriously by researchers who are studying the existential threat of AI on the human race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/super-intelligent-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity-if-were-not-ready-for-it\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Pearson \u2014 Motherboard Impending technological change tends to elicit a Janus-faced reaction in people: part awe, part creeping sense of anxiety and terror. During the Industrial Revolution, Henry Ford called it the \u201cthe terror of the machine.\u201d Today, it\u2019s the looming advancements in artificial intelligence that promise to create programs with superhuman intelligence\u2014the infamous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64986,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions\/64986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}