{"id":27826,"date":"2016-07-13T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-threats-that-artificial-intelligence-researchers-actually-worry-about"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:39:13","slug":"the-threats-that-artificial-intelligence-researchers-actually-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-threats-that-artificial-intelligence-researchers-actually-worry-about","title":{"rendered":"The Threats That Artificial Intelligence Researchers Actually Worry About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-threats-that-artificial-intelligence-researchers-actually-worry-about.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slate summary of the debate on AI Safety:<\/p>\n<p>Fears about A.I. take a very different form depending on whom you ask.<\/p>\n<p>Some researchers think that the benefits of developing an A.G.I. far outweighv the risks, and the question of control is a moot point. Intelligent systems will be developed by humans and controlled by humans, so there is nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>A.I. safety researchers strongly disagree: There is no reason to believe that we will be able to control generally intelligent, let alone superintelligent, systems. In fact, we have no idea of what a world with (super)intelligent machines would be like. But we have at least a good idea of potentially harmful scenarios\u2014like, say, an A.I. gaining unilateral control of all resources\u2014so the earlier we start thinking about it, the better.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2016\/04\/the_threats_that_artificial_intelligence_researchers_actually_worry_about.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2016\/0...about.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate summary of the debate on AI Safety: Fears about A.I. take a very different form depending on whom you ask. Some researchers think that the benefits of developing an A.G.I. far outweighv the risks, and the question of control is a moot point. Intelligent systems will be developed by humans and controlled by humans, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66929,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions\/66929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}