{"id":165673,"date":"2023-06-13T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-future-of-ai-is-unknown-thats-the-problem-with-tech-prophets-influencing-ai-policy"},"modified":"2023-06-13T02:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:23:56","slug":"the-future-of-ai-is-unknown-thats-the-problem-with-tech-prophets-influencing-ai-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-future-of-ai-is-unknown-thats-the-problem-with-tech-prophets-influencing-ai-policy","title":{"rendered":"The future of AI is unknown. That\u2019s the problem with tech \u2018prophets\u2019 influencing AI policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-ai-is-unknown-thats-the-problem-with-tech-prophets-influencing-ai-policy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11\u201312, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success<\/em>. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/avolio.swapcard.com\/Transform2023\/registrations\/Start?utm_source=vb&utm_medium=boiler&utm_content=landingpage&utm_campaign=T23_BoilerPlates\">Learn More<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The skies above where I reside near New York City were noticeably <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/news\/weather\/video\/watch-new-york-city-skyline-change-colors-from-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apocalyptic<\/a> last week. But to some in Silicon Valley, the fact that we wimpy East Coasters were dealing with a sepia hue and a scent profile that mixed cigar bar, campfire and old-school happy hour was nothing to worry about. After all, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2022\/06\/15\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\/\">AI<\/a>, not climate change, that appears to be top of mind to this cohort, who believe future superintelligence is either going to kill us all, save us all, or almost kill us all if we don\u2019t save ourselves first.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they predict the \u201cexistential risks\u201d of runaway AGI that could lead to human \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.safe.ai\/statement-on-ai-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extinction<\/a>\u201d or foretell an AI-powered utopia, this group seems to have equally strong, fixed opinions (for now, anyway \u2014 perhaps they are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/business-lessons-from-marc-andreessen-2016-12\">loosely<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/business-lessons-from-marc-andreessen-2016-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">held<\/a>\u201d) that easily tip into biblical prophet territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11\u201312, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More The skies above where I reside near New York City were noticeably apocalyptic last week. But to some in Silicon Valley, the fact that we wimpy East Coasters were dealing with a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,12,31,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-existential-risks","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165673","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=165673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}