{"id":99448,"date":"2019-12-07T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/edward-snowden-on-the-dangers-of-mass-surveillance-and-artificial-general-intelligence"},"modified":"2019-12-07T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T03:42:38","slug":"edward-snowden-on-the-dangers-of-mass-surveillance-and-artificial-general-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/edward-snowden-on-the-dangers-of-mass-surveillance-and-artificial-general-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Mass Surveillance and Artificial General Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/edward-snowden-on-the-dangers-of-mass-surveillance-and-artificial-general-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is Pandora\u2019s box, s\u2019 true\u2026<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand we can\u2019t close it and on the other hand our current direction is not good. And this is gonna get worse as AI starts taking its own \u2018creative\u2019 decisions\u2026 the human overlords will claim it has nothing to do with them if and when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The solution for commercialization is actually quite simple.<\/p>\n<p>If my dog attacks a child on the street when off the leash who is responsible?<\/p>\n<p>The owner of course. Although I dislike that word when it comes to anything living, maybe the dogs human representative is a better term.<\/p>\n<p>Business must be held accountable for its AI dogs off the leash, if necessary keep the leash on for longer. So no need to stop commercialization, just reinstate clear accountability, something which seems to be lacking today.<\/p>\n<p>And in my view, this would actually be more profitable\u2026 Everyone happy then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/edward-snowden-on-the-dangers-of-mass-surveillance-and-artificial-general-intelligence\">Continue reading \u201cEdward Snowden on the Dangers of Mass Surveillance and Artificial General Intelligence\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is Pandora\u2019s box, s\u2019 true\u2026 On the one hand we can\u2019t close it and on the other hand our current direction is not good. And this is gonna get worse as AI starts taking its own \u2018creative\u2019 decisions\u2026 the human overlords will claim it has nothing to do with them if and when things [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32,6,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99448","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\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}