{"id":71839,"date":"2017-08-09T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T03:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/an-artificial-intelligence-researcher-reveals-his-greatest-fears-about-the-future-of-ai"},"modified":"2017-08-09T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T03:42:37","slug":"an-artificial-intelligence-researcher-reveals-his-greatest-fears-about-the-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/an-artificial-intelligence-researcher-reveals-his-greatest-fears-about-the-future-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"An artificial intelligence researcher reveals his greatest fears about the future of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-artificial-intelligence-researcher-reveals-his-greatest-fears-about-the-future-of-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/conversations\/2017\/3\/8\/14712286\/artificial-intelligence-science-technology-robots-singularity-automation\">people are afraid of what AI might bring<\/a>. It\u2019s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/conversations\/2017\/3\/8\/14712286\/artificial-intelligence-science-technology-robots-singularity-automation\">we might be afraid<\/a> of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, <em>Matrix <\/em>-like, as <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/was-the-matrix-even-necessary-in-the-matrix-c64070985674\/\">some sort of human battery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yet it is hard for me to look up from the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/evolving-our-way-to-artificial-intelligence-54100\">evolutionary computer models I use to develop AI<\/a>, to think about how the innocent virtual creatures on my screen might become the monsters of the future. Might I become \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/manhattan-project-robert-oppenheimer\">the destroyer of worlds<\/a>,\u201d as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb?<\/p>\n<p>I would take the fame, I suppose, but perhaps the critics are right. Maybe I shouldn\u2019t avoid asking: As an AI expert, what do I fear about artificial intelligence?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1044717\/an-ai-researcher-explains-his-biggest-fears-about-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-and-machines\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1044717\/an-ai-researcher-explains-his-biggest...-machines\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It\u2019s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, Matrix \u2013like, as some sort of human battery. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71839","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}