{"id":135583,"date":"2022-02-14T00:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-true-dangers-of-ai-are-closer-than-we-think"},"modified":"2022-02-14T00:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:22:44","slug":"the-true-dangers-of-ai-are-closer-than-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-true-dangers-of-ai-are-closer-than-we-think","title":{"rendered":"The true dangers of AI are closer than we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-true-dangers-of-ai-are-closer-than-we-think.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As long as humans have built machines, we\u2019ve feared the day they could destroy us. Stephen Hawking famously warned that AI could spell an end to civilization. But to many AI researchers, these conversations feel unmoored. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t fear AI running amok\u2014it\u2019s that they see it already happening, just not in the ways most people would expect.<\/p>\n<p>AI is now screening job candidates, diagnosing disease, and identifying criminal suspects. But instead of making these decisions more efficient or fair, it\u2019s often perpetuating the biases of the humans on whose decisions it was trained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as humans have built machines, we\u2019ve feared the day they could destroy us. Stephen Hawking famously warned that AI could spell an end to civilization. But to many AI researchers, these conversations feel unmoored. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t fear AI running amok\u2014it\u2019s that they see it already happening, just not in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135583","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}