{"id":85873,"date":"2018-12-16T01:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T09:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/darpa-head-on-ai-dangers-its-not-one-of-those-things-that-keeps-me-up-at-night"},"modified":"2018-12-16T01:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T09:44:03","slug":"darpa-head-on-ai-dangers-its-not-one-of-those-things-that-keeps-me-up-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/darpa-head-on-ai-dangers-its-not-one-of-those-things-that-keeps-me-up-at-night","title":{"rendered":"DARPA head on AI dangers: \u2018It\u2019s not one of those things that keeps me up at night\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-head-on-ai-dangers-its-not-one-of-those-things-that-keeps-me-up-at-night.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least in the Defense Department today, we don\u2019t see machines doing anything by themselves,\u201d he said, noting that agency researchers are intensely focused on building \u201chuman-machine\u201d partnerships. \u201cI think we\u2019re a long way off from a generalized AI, even in the third wave in what we\u2019re pursuing.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Artificial intelligence does not yet pose a serious threat to humans, according to the head of the Defense Advanced Research Agency. Though the military is rushing to improve its AI capabilities, DARPA Director Dr. Steven H. Walker said AI remains \u201ca very fragile capability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2018\/12\/07\/darpa-head-ai-dangers-its-not-one-those-things-that-keeps-me-up-night\/?noredirect=on\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2018\/12\/07\/darpa-h...edirect=on<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt least in the Defense Department today, we don\u2019t see machines doing anything by themselves,\u201d he said, noting that agency researchers are intensely focused on building \u201chuman-machine\u201d partnerships. \u201cI think we\u2019re a long way off from a generalized AI, even in the third wave in what we\u2019re pursuing.\u201d Artificial intelligence does not yet pose a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85873","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\/85873","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=85873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}