A future danger?
We are creating more and more complex technologies with
great commitment and enthusiasm. I don’t see any harm in that, “so far”. “So
far”…
What I don’t see is a direct proportional concern about the
risks involved. There are already the first cases (the Cherokee Jeep hacked
e.g. or even worse: malicious software pre-installed to steal data)
representing a faint, midget glimpse of what is about to come and there won’t
be anything in the middle: artificial intelligence will be totally at our
service or totally against us.
And you? What are you seeing around you for the time being?
We seem to search for the creation of pure artificial intelligence, NOT
beneficial artificial intelligence. Of course I could be wrong (let’s hope). A
higher autonomous intelligence would acquire more and more intelligence without
our intervention. In a blink the evolution will skip millions of years: what
happens to less evolved species?!
An evolved computer capable of achieving its own goals could
be a real danger. So the only, important point is that those goals MUST be our
goals: equally wealth for everyone, ultimately. Let’s go back to my above
question: what do you see around you? Personally, I sadly have to reckon that
people producing evolved technologies aren’t seeking equality.
What goals will their machines / computers / software /
robots…. (let’s call all of them with the most appropriate name: artificial
intelligence) be achieving?! Our aims or theirs? Unfair basis have already been
laid: a highly perilous game whose goal is only profit, without foreseeing the
ultimate price to be paid.
….Always humble,
Angiolino
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