"Too bad for the ants." ๐
Will AI turn evil ๐ค and destroy us all ??
This isn't the majority expert belief. Rather, the real danger is in AI developing goals that are very different than oursโ and being much more powerful than us in the future to achieve those goals beyond our abilities to stop them. This class of problems is called "alignment", meaning the problem of ensuring that the AI's goals stay in line with those of humanity.
Max Tegmark, Steven Hawking and others have explained it in analogy similar to thisโ if you were in charge of constructing a skyscraper ๐ท๐ป๐๏ธ and you found out there was an ant hill ๐ in the way, would you stop a costly construction project ๐ต to try to delicately move the nest out of the way ... ? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
"Too bad for the ants." ๐๐
Recommended resources
- Max Tegmark (2017) โ Life 3.0