{"id":97103,"date":"2019-10-06T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/human-compatible-is-a-provocative-prescription-to-re-think-ai-before-its-too-late"},"modified":"2019-10-06T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:42:26","slug":"human-compatible-is-a-provocative-prescription-to-re-think-ai-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/human-compatible-is-a-provocative-prescription-to-re-think-ai-before-its-too-late","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHuman Compatible\u201d is a provocative prescription to re-think AI before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-compatible-is-a-provocative-prescription-to-re-think-ai-before-its-too-late.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stuart Russell, a distinguished AI researcher and computer scientist at UC Berkeley, believes there is a fundamental and potentially civilization-ending shortcoming in the \u201cstandard model\u201d of AI, which is taught (and Dr. Russell wrote the main textbook) and applied virtually everywhere. Dr. Russell\u2019s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Human-Compatible-Artificial-Intelligence-Problem-ebook\/dp\/B07N5J5FTS?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control<\/a>, argues that unless we re-think the building blocks of AI, the arrival of superhuman AI may become the \u201clast event in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That may sound a bit wild-eyed, but <i>Human Compatible<\/i> is a carefully written explanation of the concepts underlying AI as well as the history of their development. If you want to understand how fast AI is developing and why the technology is so dangerous, <i>Human Compatible<\/i> is your guide, literally starting with Aristotle and closing with <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/five\/\">OpenAI Five\u2019s Dota 2 triumph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-secret=\"Blm7ReEoh0\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/06\/an-interview-with-dr-stuart-russell-author-of-human-compatible-artificial-intelligence-and-the-problem-of-control\/\">An interview with Dr. Stuart Russell, author of \u201c<i>Human Compatible<\/i>, Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stuart Russell, a distinguished AI researcher and computer scientist at UC Berkeley, believes there is a fundamental and potentially civilization-ending shortcoming in the \u201cstandard model\u201d of AI, which is taught (and Dr. Russell wrote the main textbook) and applied virtually everywhere. Dr. Russell\u2019s new book, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97103","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\/97103","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}