{"id":35064,"date":"2017-03-05T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/whos-in-control-scientists-gather-to-discuss-ai-doomsday-scenarios"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:20","slug":"whos-in-control-scientists-gather-to-discuss-ai-doomsday-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/whos-in-control-scientists-gather-to-discuss-ai-doomsday-scenarios","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who\u2019s in control?\u2019 Scientists gather to discuss AI doomsday scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whos-in-control-scientists-gather-to-discuss-ai-doomsday-scenarios.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence has the capability to transform the world \u2014 but not necessarily for the better. A group of scientists gathered to discuss doomsday scenarios, addressing the possibility that AI could become a serious threat.<\/p>\n<p>The event, \u2018Great Debate: The Future of Artificial Intelligence \u2014 Who\u2019s in Control?\u2019, took place at Arizona State University (ASU) over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLike any new technology, artificial intelligence holds great promise to help humans shape their future, and it also holds great danger in that it could eventually lead to the rise of machines over humanity, according to some futurists. So which course will it be for AI and what can be done now to help shape its trajectory?\u201d<\/em> ASU <a href=\"https:\/\/asunow.asu.edu\/20170223-will-we-control-artificial-intelligence-or-will-it-control-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/379233-artificial-intelligence-meeting-arizona\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/379233-artificial-intelligence-meeting-arizona\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has the capability to transform the world \u2014 but not necessarily for the better. A group of scientists gathered to discuss doomsday scenarios, addressing the possibility that AI could become a serious threat. The event, \u2018Great Debate: The Future of Artificial Intelligence \u2014 Who\u2019s in Control?\u2019, took place at Arizona State University (ASU) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064","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=35064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58499,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions\/58499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}