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posted by janrinok on Saturday November 12 2016, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-could-have-told-you-that dept.

But as the technology evolves, experts are cautioning about the potential threats AI could pose in the future.

"AI could be used to deal with particular issues around privacy and surveillance and things like this," Antoine Blondeau, chief executive of Sentient Technologies, told Al Jazeera at the Web Summit in Lisbon.

"That would bother me a lot and it would bother others.

"So yes, it can be used for bad outcomes. It's incumbent on us to make sure it's not concentrated in the hands of people who can implement this without checks and balances."

Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner and world-renowned physicist, drew attention to the dark side of AI last month.

"Alongside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers like powerful autonomous weapons and new ways for the few to oppress the many," Hawking said.

"It will bring great disruption to our economy and in the future AI could develop a will of its own."

For the moment artificial intelligence poses no immediate or obvious threat, but experts say it is a matter of time and work needs to be done now.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @05:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @05:53PM (#426088)

    "I would argue for caution"

    errr...the threat of AI is so trivial and obvious one wonders why this is such a revelation. There is nothing here that a smart 12 year old could not work out.

    And what the fuck is all this "could" and " It's incumbent on us to make sure it's not concentrated in the hands of people who can implement this without checks and balances.".

    What a fucking joke. We have nuclear (and other) weapons in the hands of those people NOW.

    AI will come and there is nothing you can realistically do. It will be used for murder (AKA war) and there is nothing you can do. It will escalate inappropriately and there is nothing you can do. It will be used nefariously....you get the picture.