{"id":13391,"date":"2015-02-03T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13391"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:50","slug":"as-the-powerful-argue-ai-ethics-might-superintelligence-arise-on-the-fringes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/as-the-powerful-argue-ai-ethics-might-superintelligence-arise-on-the-fringes","title":{"rendered":"As the Powerful Argue AI Ethics, Might Superintelligence Arise on the Fringes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 SingularityHub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Last year, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking admitted they were concerned about artificial intelligence. While undeniably brilliant, neither are AI researchers. Then this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/31047780\">Bill Gates leapt into the fray<\/a>, also voicing concern\u2014even as a chief of research at Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-31023741\">said advanced AI doesn\u2019t worry him<\/a>. It\u2019s a hot topic. And hotly debated. Why?<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">In part, it\u2019s because tech firms are pouring big resources into research. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are making rapid advances in machine learning\u2014a technique where programs learn by interacting with large sets of data.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/01\/31\/as-the-powerful-argue-ai-ethics-might-superintelligence-arise-on-the-fringes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 SingularityHub Last year, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking admitted they were concerned about artificial intelligence. While undeniably brilliant, neither are AI researchers. Then this week Bill Gates leapt into the fray, also voicing concern\u2014even as a chief of research at Microsoft said advanced AI doesn\u2019t worry him. It\u2019s a hot topic. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1629,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-software","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391","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=13391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46633,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions\/46633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}