Fear of the Machine?
Igor Tulchinsky
Founder and CEO, Head of Research, co-CIO @ WorldQuant | Financial Risk Management
For the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference, we asked #PowerofIdeas contributors to explore how innovations are advancing a thriving world. See more coverage on the Milken Institute LinkedIn page. This article originally appeared in the Power of Ideas.?
Existence in the 21st century is quantifiably and significantly better for the majority of humankind than it was a century ago. Billions of the global population have seen their living standards improve dramatically
It seems, then, that we imagine negative futures for ourselves even when the evidence suggests otherwise. At the moment, that is particularly the case when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI)
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"It seems that we imagine negative futures for ourselves even when the evidence suggests otherwise."
We have written before about the need to think of ourselves as guardians of the planet—positioning humans as a new category of species, one with the unique ability to monitor and prevent or mitigate the extinction of other species. Guardians have a duty to serve as protectors of the life within an ecosystem, and to manage threats to that life. What if rather than being the malevolent figures of the popular imagination, future incarnations of sophisticated AI actually ended up being better than humans? Not only better at chess and calculus, but also better in a deeper, moral sense. What if machines were good, and better at being good, than we could be?
What do we mean by good? We tend to think of AI-driven decision-making as coldly rational. But rational according to what code? What if the machines had as their guiding principles not profit or power, but a code that prompted them to use their vast reserves of data and computational power to be better stewards of life, better at deploying resources and organizing distribution, better at administering medicines? If machines were unshackled from some of the more excessive checks and balances we seek to impose on them and permitted instead to develop intelligence that was as complex, broad, and multifaceted as humans, why do we assume that this would lead to an inevitable clash, rather than a collaborative effort
In our respective worlds of finance and genetics, we are already seeing astonishing developments as we enter the first stages of the AI revolution. We are using neural networks to help us clarify and refine investment strategies; we are achieving extraordinary efficiencies in the analysis and prognosis of diseases from imaging and DNA-sequencing data; we are using the data-processing power of machines to drive and shape the future iterations of our industries. Nothing we have seen so far persuades us that technology, twinned with benevolent and progressive human intelligence, will deliver anything other than a brighter, better future. We need, of course, to ensure that technological progress
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2 周It's true. We're in charge of how we see things. Even when it's tough, our mindset matters. Keep it real and do your best.
I am all for progress and AI will likely drive that faster than ever before, but progress isn't by default good. When we are looking to apply such massive amplifiers of change, a bit of caution is a smart thing.
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1 å¹´Igor your valuable contributions are very much appreciated. Responsible AI is the way forward
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1 å¹´Very interesting, thanks for sharing!!