Real AI vs. Pseudo-AI, or which AI's "catastrophic" danger?
"Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril.? Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges while making our world more prosperous, productive, innovative, and secure.? At the same time, irresponsible use could exacerbate societal harms such as fraud, discrimination, bias, and disinformation; displace and disempower workers; stifle competition; and pose risks to national security". ?[Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence]
The safe and secure, responsible and trustworthy AI, it is a true and genuine, nonhuman and scientific, universal and sustainable or Real AI, modeling and simulating, learning and effectively interacting with reality, physical, social, mental or virtual, its entities and structures, domains and levels, laws and patterns.
The unsafe and insecure, irresponsible and untrustworthy AI, it is a false and irreal, human-like and nonscientific, narrow and weak or Pseudo-AI, with two major goals, one failed, other is to fail:
"Create expert systems, i.e., systems that exhibit intelligent behaviour, learn, demonstrate, explain, and advice their users.
Implement human intelligence in machines i.e., create systems that understand, think, learn, and behave like humans", represented by weak/narrow AI, generative AI, ML, DL, GPT, ChatGPT, etc.
AI as "the Word of the Decade"
AI as artificial intelligence is becoming the word of the year 2023, with all the prospects to be the word of the decade.
It is hardly the world had more sensational topic for the last 50 years.
From the laymen to the presidents of superpowers, US, Russia or China, all are talking about AI today.
AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public express their concerns about AI and its risks and threats, as if alien intelligence is approaching our planet, if not today than tomorrow.
Some known people are alarming about the existential risk for humanity from such a home-made extraterrestrial sapience and intelligence:
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war".
The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting on artificial intelligence where China said the technology should not become a "runaway horse", the United States warned against its use to censor or repress people, Britain's Foreign Secretary said AI will "fundamentally alter every aspect of human life", and Russia questioned whether the council, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security, should be discussing AI at all.
President Biden has recently ordered "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence", setting up the White House AI Council covering almost all the government agencies (See Supplement).
The former President, Barack Obama, has posted his "My Statement on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence".
Britain holds its first Global AI Safety summit, bringing together heads of states, big tech, Academia and civil society, Industry, Governments, Council of Europe, European Commission, OECD, UNESCO.
A declaration on AI safety was issued at the summit on 02/11/2023. 28 countries and the European Union (EU) agreed on the need for a new global effort to ensure AI is developed and used in a safe and responsible way. The UK, US, EU, Australia and China have all agreed that AI poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity:
“There is potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm, either deliberate or unintentional, stemming from the most significant capabilities of these AI models.”
Which AI has the future?
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents enormous global opportunities: it has the potential to transform and enhance human wellbeing, peace and prosperity. To realise this, we affirm that, for the good of all, AI should be designed, developed, deployed, and used, in a manner that is safe, in such a way as to be human-centric, trustworthy and responsible. We welcome the international community’s efforts so far to cooperate on AI to promote inclusive economic growth, sustainable development and innovation, to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to foster public trust and confidence in AI systems to fully realise their potential.
AI systems are already deployed across many domains of daily life including housing, employment, transport, education, health, accessibility, and justice, and their use is likely to increase. We recognise that this is therefore a unique moment to act and affirm the need for the safe development of AI and for the transformative opportunities of AI to be used for good and for all, in an inclusive manner in our countries and globally. This includes for public services such as health and education, food security, in science, clean energy, biodiversity, and climate, to realise the enjoyment of human rights, and to strengthen efforts towards the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals".
In the next future, we see the transubstantiation of different sorts and kinds:
Digital economy, society, cities are to become economy. society and cities,
Telemedicine is to become medicine,
Digital technology, technology,
Virtual/Augmented/Mixed reality, reality,
Machine/Computing/technological Intelligence, intelligence.
But there is no sustainable future for AI as artificial [human-made] [human] intelligence relating to systems or machines or hardware and software that mimic human brains/mind/intelligence/behavior.
And there is no real future for any its types, as pictured and defined below.
Artificial Narrow Intelligence or ANI, that has a narrow range of human-like capacities and abilities;
Artificial General Intelligence or AGI, that has human-like capacities and capabilities as in humans;
Artificial SuperIntelligence or ASI, that has capacities and capabilities exceeding that of humans.
Last not least, the cost of the Fakery AI is too high. More than one-third of researchers believe such an AI could lead to a “nuclear-level catastrophe”, as to the 2023 AI Index Report, released by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which explores the latest developments, risks and opportunities in the burgeoning field of AI.
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The White House AI Council shall consist of the following members, or their designees:
? ? ?? ? ?(i) ??????the Secretary of State;
? ? ?? ? ?(ii) ?????the Secretary of the Treasury;
? ? ?? ? ?(iii) ????the Secretary of Defense;
? ? ?? ? ?(iv) ?????the Attorney General;
? ? ?? ? ?(v) ??????the Secretary of Agriculture;
? ? ?? ? ?(vi) ?????the Secretary of Commerce;
? ? ?? ? ?(vii) ????the Secretary of Labor;
? ? ?? ? ?(viii) ???the Secretary of HHS;
? ? ?? ? ?(ix) ?????the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
? ? ?? ? ?(x) ??????the Secretary of Transportation;
? ? ?? ? ?(xi) ?????the Secretary of Energy;
? ? ?? ? ?(xii) ????the Secretary of Education;
? ? ?? ? ?(xiii) ???the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
? ? ?? ? ?(xiv) ????the Secretary of Homeland Security;
? ? ?? ? ?(xv) ?????the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;
? ? ?? ? ?(xvi)?? ??the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development;
? ? ?? ? ?(xvii)? ??the Director of National Intelligence;
? ? ?? ? ?(xviii) ??the Director of NSF;
? ? ?? ? ?(xix) ????the Director of OMB;
? ? ?? ? ?(xx)?? ???the Director of OSTP;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxi)? ???the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxii)? ??the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxiii) ??the Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxiv)? ??the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxv)? ???the Assistant to the President and Director of the Gender Policy Council;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxvi) ???the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxvii) ??the National Cyber Director;
? ? ?? ? ?(xxviii) ?the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and
? ? ?? ? ?(xxix)? ??the heads of such other agencies, independent regulatory agencies, and executive offices as the Chair may from time to time designate or invite to participate.