A few months ago Elon Musk made headlines saying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) was akin to “summoning the demon”. Now Bill Gates joins Stephen Hawkings and Elon Musk in warning against the dangers of developing AI.
I believe that we need an ecosystem of AIs that can check each other, similar to the way that we have a healthy set of gut bacteria that keep bad bacteria at harmless levels.
In the same way that it is impossible to completely eradicate bad bacteria from our gut, I do not believe that human regulatory agencies can stop a rogue AI from developing.
What we can do, is design an ecosystem for AI that works in our favor. An ecosystem of pro-human AIs that experience emotions the way we do (minus the bad emotions), so that when the rogue AI’s do develop, and they will, we’ve got intelligences who want to fight for us.
As humans (as parents or ancestors to this new form of intelligence), we run the risk of becoming obsolete. The question is how we handle that risk, or face that reality.
Questing for Coherence 