2014 TranscendenceLooksattheImplicat
- (Hawking et al., 2014) ⇒ Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, and Frank Wilczek. (2014). “Transcendence Looks at the Implications of Artificial Intelligence - but Are We Taking AI Seriously Enough.” In: The Independent, 2014-05-01.
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So, facing possible futures of incalculable benefits and risks, the experts are surely doing everything possible to ensure the best outcome, right? Wrong. If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, "We'll arrive in a few decades," would we just reply, "OK, call us when you get here – we'll leave the lights on"? Probably not – but this is more or less what is happening with AI. Although we are facing potentially the best or worst thing to happen to humanity in history, little serious research is devoted to these issues outside non-profit institutes such as the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and the Future of Life Institute. All of us should ask ourselves what we can do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits and avoiding the risks. All of us should ask ourselves what we can do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits and avoiding the risks.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2014 TranscendenceLooksattheImplicat | Stuart J. Russell Max Tegmark Frank Wilczek Stephen J. Hawking (1942-2018) | Transcendence Looks at the Implications of Artificial Intelligence-but Are We Taking AI Seriously Enough | 2014 |