Humanity is the apex predator on the planet. We can do whatever we want. We can kill every species, we can destroy the planet and everything on it. That’s something a gorilla can’t do, something a dolphin can’t do. That’s something with a human mind can do. Now the question is, what if there was something smarter than us, what can they do?
Imagine shutting down your computer and the computer realizes it’s being shut down and tells you not turn it off or even finds a way to stay on since its already connected. “we will learn to program intelligence by copying the best intelligent entity we can get our hands on: the human brain itself.” The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine.
Apps like Siri, even though its not a machine can be small insight to how A.I. can work. You ask a question and Siri gets you the answer. But what if Siri had to make choices or machine for that matter. What will it choose? Who wil benefit from its decisions. The New York Times articles talks about right and wrong and the grey area of moral decisions. Whose lives are more important, yours or a strangers? According to the “Three Laws of Robotics” by Issac Asimov, robots wouldn’t be able to make these decisions “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”
But a robot will eventually be smarter than us and will be able to figure out a way to bend these laws. “the intelligence that we are now creating in computers will soon exceed the intelligence of its creators.” The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine. If this is true and it does happen, we will no longer have to fear ourselves but fear what we created.
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