{"id":34441,"date":"2017-02-11T23:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T07:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/will-superhuman-agi-be-our-friend-or-foe"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:22","slug":"will-superhuman-agi-be-our-friend-or-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/will-superhuman-agi-be-our-friend-or-foe","title":{"rendered":"Will Superhuman AGI Be Our Friend or Foe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let\u2019s just go ahead and address the question on everyone\u2019s mind: will AI kill us? What is the negative potential of transhuman superintelligence? Once its cognitive power surpasses our own, will it give us a leg-up in \u2018the singularity\u2019, or will it look at our collective track record of harming our own species, other species, the world that gave us life, etc., and exterminate us like pests? AI expert Ben Goertzel believes we\u2019ve been at this point of uncertainty many times before in our evolution. When we stepped out of our caves, it was a risk \u2013 no one knew it would lead to cities and space flight. When we spoke the first word, took up agriculture, invented the printing press, flicked the internet on-switch \u2013 all of these things could have led to our demise, and in some sense, our eventual demise can be traced all the way back to the day that ancient human learnt how to make fire. Progress helps us, until the day it kills us. That said, fear of negative potential cannot stop us from attempting forward motion \u2013 and by now, says Goertzel, it\u2019s too late anyway. Even if the U.S. decided to pull the plug on superhuman intelligence research, China would keep at it. Even if China pulled out, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Nigeria would march on. We know there are massive benefits \u2013 both humanitarian and corporate \u2013 and we have latched to the idea. \u201cThe way we got to this point as a species and a culture has been to keep doing amazing new things that we didn\u2019t fully understand,\u201d says Goertzel, and for better or worse, \u201cthat\u2019s what we\u2019re going to keep on doing.\u201d Ben Goertzel\u2019s most recent book is AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ben Goertzel\u2019s most recent book is AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s just go ahead and address the question on everyone\u2019s mind: will AI kill us? What is the negative potential of transhuman superintelligence? Once its cognitive power surpasses our own, will it give us a leg-up in \u2018the singularity\u2019, or will it look at our collective track record of harming our own species, other species, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,64,1514,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-space-travel","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58760,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions\/58760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}