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Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has warned about artificial intelligence before, tweeting that it could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking Friday at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department’s Centennial Symposium, Musk called it our biggest existential threat:
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like yeah he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.
has he seen something that has frightened him or is it just hyperbole.
Toffler defines the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".
originally posted by: CagliostroTheGreat
a reply to: neoholographic
Future Shock.
Toffler defines the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".
Future Shock Wiki
This is probably happening right now. I would not have a hard time believing that Elite government and military are already working with AI and that, at least in a rudimentary form, some sort of eschatological safeguard exists to make sure that these digital lifeforms don't somehow take control of our infrastructure i.e Daemon by Daniel Suarez. Advanced AIs taking control of anything would be bad, however. Can you imagine if they somehow were able to take control of the systems that control our drones?
In my opinion, we should just leave this technology alone but, like you said, it's probably inevitable.
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.