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Lisbon's Web Summit: AI Not Without a Dark Side

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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, @06:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @06:59PM (#426100)

    "AI" already determines whether your health insurance claims are paid or not, and by how much. Well, not really AI, but it's done nightly. So there is still some oversight and possibility to appeal. today. (ok, yes, not really AI...yet. more and more data fusion & integration, both at a macroscale and individual scale... Fitbit anyone? will be feeding in to the systems more and more...)
    service preauthorizations are done automatically too.

    so is "instant credit approval" at point of purchase. not really AI, but it's getting there. we will be predestined even more by our digital profiles. oh there will still be some bypasses in the systems, but for the most part our lives will just be a long collection of Mad Libs templates where the systems fill in the blank spots.
    welcome to the Matrix, Elysium and District 9, with a bit of Gattica and Cloud Atlas to spice things up.