{"id":35063,"date":"2017-03-05T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:21","slug":"ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions","title":{"rendered":"AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (and Solutions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence boosters predict a brave new world of flying cars and cancer cures. Detractors worry about a future where humans are enslaved to an evil race of robot overlords. Veteran AI scientist Eric Horvitz and Doomsday Clock guru Lawrence Krauss, seeking a middle ground, gathered a group of experts in the Arizona desert to discuss the worst that could possibly happen \u2014 and how to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Their workshop took place last weekend at Arizona State University with funding from Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. Officially dubbed \u201cEnvisioning and Addressing Adverse AI Outcomes,\u201d it was a kind of AI doomsday games that organized some 40 scientists, cyber-security experts and policy wonks into groups of attackers \u2014 the red team \u2014 and defenders \u2014 blue team \u2014 playing out AI-gone-very-wrong scenarios, ranging from stock-market manipulation to global warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Horvitz is optimistic \u2014 a good thing because machine intelligence is his life\u2019s work \u2014 but some other, more dystopian-minded backers of the project seemed to find his outlook too positive when plans for this event started about two years ago, said Krauss, a theoretical physicist who directs ASU\u2019s Origins Project, the program running the workshop. Yet Horvitz said that for these technologies to move forward successfully and to earn broad public confidence, all concerns must be fully aired and addressed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-02\/ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017&#45;03&#45;02\/a...-solutions<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence boosters predict a brave new world of flying cars and cancer cures. Detractors worry about a future where humans are enslaved to an evil race of robot overlords. Veteran AI scientist Eric Horvitz and Doomsday Clock guru Lawrence Krauss, seeking a middle ground, gathered a group of experts in the Arizona desert to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,2019,12,9,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58500,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions\/58500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}