Elon Musk Says the race to AI could easily lead to WW3
Michael Spencer
A.I. Writer, researcher and curator - full-time Newsletter publication manager.
Elon Musk is becoming the gatekeeper of dark AI prophecy, and on labour day had another home-run of a dark premonition. Read on.
After Vladimir Putin suggested in a talk to students that the country with the best AI would be the "ruler of the world", Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and pioneer of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, Neuralink and The Boring Company, had this to say:
Countries competing to be the best when it comes to artificial intelligence technology could “likely” be the case of WW3.
Elon Musk is the Champion of Doomsday AI Scenarios
While some consider Musk eccentric, he represents a rising group of academics and AI founders who believe in potential threats to humanity, including the rise of killer robots. Whether publicity stunts or fair warning to the world, China has prioritised AI at scale in a way that the U.S. may be unable to follow.
There's increasing opinion and evidence that if Artificial Intelligence did make a leap to a more generalised artificial intelligence (AGI), humans would be completely unprepared for it. The lack of agreement on ethics, protocol, and regulation means humanity must prepare for the increasingly possibility of AI making a breakthrough or of simply automating more human tasks.
Artificial Intelligence; Work Savior or Mortal Enemy
Musk's fear is that all it would take is one rogue AI to turn the entire system (of competing countries armed with Nuclear) to turn on each other and a SkyNet scenario could take place, baring alien intervention. However, most sceptics point out that the AI of today is nothing but code and deep learning systems.
Elon Musk's peculiar doomsday message still resonates with many of us:
Artificial intelligence could be humanity’s greatest existential threat, this time by starting a third world war.
However like global warming, this creates a dichotomy on the issues that creates a diffusion of responsibility where AI optimists and pessimists sort of cancel each other out without any significant action taken, as nations simply gear up to stockpile AI talent and develop consumer products that leverage the latest iteration of AI.
Elon Musk’s fear of AI warfare has been his signature MO, and he has raised the bar in the intensity and frequency of his message to the human race.
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7 年As much as I'd love to disagree with Elon, he is right. I wrote some A.I. back at university, and when the algorithms are self-processing enough the prophecy is self-fulfilling. Either a programmer will be offered enough cash to disrespect the ethics and standards, ignorant enough to not know the standards are there, or and the most probable - we get lazy and start tasking the A.I. with building it's own updates and it decides the standards and ethics are outdated. then we are done for, period.
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7 年Two weeks ago my friend said to me, that we are living in boring times, when comes to science and knowledge. Nothing is really happening, there are no revolutionary discoveries, there are no information about major technological leap. I said to him, that he is having a shallow perspective over modern science. This was only a prologue to a very interesting conversation as we talked over 3 hours on this topic. Nevertheless, we are obviously living in times, when we have sufficient resources and knowledge to overcome basic obstacles and reach the point, where we can achieve so called technological singularity, as sometimes referred to a fully functional AI. Unfortunately, the problem with the AI lies at the very core of its origin - it will be made by Humans. We, as a species, are not, by all mean, prepared for such technology and so the possible scenario for having such AI would be most probably fatal for the Mankind. The reason for this is very simple - we do not understand each other, our moods, moral and/or opportunistic decisions are often powered by lesser feelings or strong emotions, our judgement is constantly being put under pressure of our emotions rather than logic and benevolent approach towards others. With such a heavy burden, what do You think, what choices will a fully functional AI make? The answer is simple - the strongest is the winner and it will certainly be not the Mankind.
Managing Partner at FC Partner. We shake the private equity market to raise Private Equity firms performances and efficiency. We believe in process automatisation, datas controls and reportings automatic generation.
7 年Off course, unfortunately. The aim of IA is to replace humans for decisions. Doing so, the roles of humans will evolve to only justifications of decisions taken by IA instead of taking a decision and asking to weapons to execute it. Robots have no intelligence and no conscience because we don't know how conscience works and where it comes from.
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7 年All we would have to do is call Arnold the terminator.