Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously - Yoshua Bengio
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Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously - Yoshua Bengio
“People need to understand that current AI—and the AI that we can foresee in the reasonable future—does not, and will not, have a moral sense or moral understanding of what is right and what is wrong,” Bengio said. “It’s crazy to put those decisions into the hands of machines.”
Kevin Roose • Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
I think the most worrisome aspect of AI systems in the short term is that we will give them too much autonomy without being fully aware of their limitations and vulnerabilities. We tend to anthropomorphize AI systems: we impute human qualities to them and end up overestimating the extent to which these systems can actually be fully trusted.
Melanie Mitchell • Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
amazon.com
It's becoming increasingly evident that in many circles, AI is not perceived as merely a technology, but as "something else" entirely. This misconception is exemplified by the recurring debate: "Humans vs AI." To illustrate the absurdity of this framing, let's replace "AI" with "technology":
"Humans vs Technology"
This reframing immediately highl... See more