{"id":78563,"date":"2018-05-10T02:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-a-i"},"modified":"2018-05-10T02:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:22:39","slug":"how-frightened-should-we-be-of-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-a-i","title":{"rendered":"How Frightened Should We Be of A.I.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-a-i.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people in tech point out that artificial narrow intelligence, or A.N.I., has grown ever safer and more reliable\u2014certainly safer and more reliable than we are. (Self-driving cars and trucks might save hundreds of thousands of lives every year.) For them, the question is whether the risks of creating an omnicompetent Jeeves would exceed the combined risks of the myriad nightmares\u2014pandemics, asteroid strikes, global nuclear war, etc.\u2014that an A.G.I. could sweep aside for us.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thinking about artificial intelligence can help clarify what makes us human\u2014for better and for worse.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/05\/14\/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-ai\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/05\/14\/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-ai<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people in tech point out that artificial narrow intelligence, or A.N.I., has grown ever safer and more reliable\u2014certainly safer and more reliable than we are. (Self-driving cars and trucks might save hundreds of thousands of lives every year.) For them, the question is whether the risks of creating an omnicompetent Jeeves would exceed the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78563","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}