What I find fascinating is that everyone seems to be focussed on what Ai is going to do to us when it’s outgrown us, but what we should be looking at is what WE are going to do when it becomes all powerful.
As people are removed from the chain of decision making and there are fewer thinking people between pushing a big red button and annihilation, it could very well be a man or a woman that destroys his/her fellow man, not A.i.
Here Kevin talks about trading algorithms and how they got to the point that all we could do was push a button to stop them, without understanding what they were up to:
What I find fascinating is that everyone seems to be focussed on what Ai is going to do to us when it’s outgrown us, but what we should be looking at is what WE are going to do when it becomes all powerful.
As people are removed from the chain of decision making and there are fewer thinking people between pushing a big red button and annihilation, it could very well be a man or a woman that destroys his/her fellow man, not A.i.
Here Kevin talks about trading algorithms and how they got to the point that all we could do was push a button to stop them, without understanding what they were up to:
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare