AI: Risky? Nah, Works Great
May 21, 2018
One purpose of science fiction books is to highlight potential risks that can develop from technology. Evil robot overlords are scary, but what is even scarier is the unseen cyber criminal that can track and manipulate everything within the Internet. Science fiction authors have toyed with this idea for decades, but Phys.org shares that this now our reality. The article “DeepMind Boss Admits ‘Risks’ Of AI” has the scary details.
The respected AI company DeepMind is part of Google’s empire and Demis Hassabis leads it. In the article, Hassabis discusses how AI is a tool with many benefits to humankind, but there are philosophical questions we need to answer in order to govern the systems. The philosophical questions concern ethics and how we want AI to affect our future. Hassabis said:
“In a question and answer session at University College London, he said AI is an ‘incredible tool to accelerate scientific discovery,’ adding: ‘We believe that it will be one of the most beneficial technologies of mankind ever.’ However, like other powerful technologies, “there are risks”, he said, adding: ‘It depends on how we as a society decide to deploy it that will resolve in good or bad outcomes.’”
The biggest thing we need to worry about are the unknown factors of the future. But with leaders who evoke trust and the well-being of everyone, why worry? Wait? Who said that? Al Capone?
Whitney Grace, May 21, 2018
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