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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: 1) by Kenny Blankenship on Tuesday November 15 2016, @03:11AM

    by Kenny Blankenship (5712) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @03:11AM (#426834)

    Yeah, it "could be pretty much the same". No argument. It could also be that the shock wave of a neutron star collision will sterilize the Earth right down to the mantle before I even finish this sentence... any second... no? Oh... well...

    While we're waiting for the apocalypse, can we think about how we deal with the human unemployment situation that's already unfolding? Preferably, without a Communist/Socialist/Whateverist revolution that (if it ever happens) will be more chaotic than problem it was meant to solve?

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    Someday, even Killer Meteors must fail.