Is AI Dangerous?
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies has published an essay by Michael Anissimov detailing his reasons for believing that artificial intelligence is dangerous. In short he believes that an intelligent agent with different goals than humans, or which has the capacity to have different goals, is inherently a threat to the survival of the human race. His conclusion appears based on the assumption that only humans can be equipped with “freedom, empathy, self-determination, consensus-building, conflict resolution, aesthetics, camaraderie, and rapport.” Why won’t machines have these qualities? “What programmer has the time to do all that work when general intelligence without the human-like morality will be significantly easier to achieve?”