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

posted by janrinok on Saturday November 12 2016, @12:34PM   
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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• Re:"It will bring great disruption to our economy.(Score: 3, Interesting) by jimshatt on Saturday November 12 2016, @03:04PM

  by jimshatt (978) on Saturday November 12 2016, @03:04PM (#426053) Journal

  I had a discussion about this with my daughter (11 yo) just yesterday. If the robots do all the work, we can just relax and make art and focus on the more interesting stuff, was her argument. No more money, to better oneself is incentive enough. I highly doubt that most people would even want to live in a world like that (you know, a la Star Trek but without the exploration and stuff), but I'm fine with that, just make sure not to create any offspring.
  But probably, there will still be some essential things that can't be done by the AIs and the people doing that will feel superior and entitled to more than the leeching plebs. Some 'currency' would be created to highlight this difference in being necessary.
  Maybe, with a severely limited population, this is a feasible society. But probably not.

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