{"id":18495,"date":"2015-10-16T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/experts-warn-un-panel-about-the-dangers-of-artificial-superintelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:31:23","slug":"experts-warn-un-panel-about-the-dangers-of-artificial-superintelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/experts-warn-un-panel-about-the-dangers-of-artificial-superintelligence","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn UN Panel About the Dangers of Artificial Superintelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9N_Fsbngh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During a recent United Nations meeting about emerging global risks, political representatives from around the world were warned about the threats posed by artificial intelligence and other future technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The event, organized by Georgia\u2019s UN representatives and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), was set up to foster discussion about the national and international security risks posed by new technologies, including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) materials.<\/p>\n<p>The panel was also treated to a special discussion on the potential threats raised by artificial superintelligence\u2014that is, AI whose capabilities greatly exceed those of humans. The purpose of the meeting, held on October 14, was to discuss the implications of emerging technologies, and how to proactively mitigate the risks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/experts-warn-un-panel-about-the-dangers-of-artificial-s-1736932856?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent United Nations meeting about emerging global risks, political representatives from around the world were warned about the threats posed by artificial intelligence and other future technologies. The event, organized by Georgia\u2019s UN representatives and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), was set up to foster discussion about the national [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18495","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63917,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18495\/revisions\/63917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}