{"id":95219,"date":"2019-08-23T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-superintelligence-is-a-threat-that-should-be-taken-seriously"},"modified":"2019-08-23T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:42:25","slug":"why-superintelligence-is-a-threat-that-should-be-taken-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-superintelligence-is-a-threat-that-should-be-taken-seriously","title":{"rendered":"Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-superintelligence-is-a-threat-that-should-be-taken-seriously.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/pocketmags.com\/us\/skeptic-magazine\/222\/articles\/144321\/why-artificial-intelligence-is-not-an-existential-threat\">article<\/a> for <i>Skeptic<\/i>, Michael Shermer (the magazine\u2019s founding publisher) put forth an argument for \u201cwhy AI is not an existential threat,\u201d where \u201cAI\u201d stands for \u201c<i>artificial intelligence<\/i>\u201d and an \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.existential-risk.org\/concept.pdf\">existential threat<\/a>\u201d is <i>anything<\/i> that could cause human extinction or the irreversible decline of civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 In a recent article for Skeptic, Michael Shermer (the magazine\u2019s founding publisher) put forth an argument for \u201cwhy AI is not an existential threat,\u201d where \u201cAI\u201d stands for \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d and an \u201cexistential threat\u201d is anything that could cause human extinction or the irreversible decline of civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95219","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\/95219","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}