The experts’ mostly hopeful projections foresee a future where AI causes insidious and annoying problems. We asked specialists in the field how it might all go horribly wrong-from AI takeovers of autonomous weapons to unscrupulous chatbots. An entire field of AI research is focused on understanding its dangers and-let’s all hope-preventing them. Over the past few months, AI technology has advanced in enormous, headline-making leaps, making many machine learning experts wonder whether similar horrors lurk in our near future. Then there’s the popular thought experiment from University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, in which he imagines a superpowered AI that’s been trained to optimize a single function-so it methodically diverts all of the planet’s resources into making paper clips.
The machines in The Matrix convert humans into batteries whose brains are permanently plugged into a simulation of the year 1999. Skynet nukes Earth and then unleashes armies of evil robots in the Terminator movies. I n science fiction, artificial intelligence is always causing epic disasters.
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