Popular Mechanics
By TIM NEWCOMB
Before we get too far into this artificial intelligence race, let’s make sure we aren’t just setting ourselves up for certain death. That’s the gist of the recent message that a pair of Oxford University researchers delivered to the U.K. Parliament’s House of Commons.
“With superhuman AI, there is a particular risk that is of a different sort of class, which is that it could kill everyone,” said Michael Cohen, an engineering sciences doctoral candidate, during a January 25 hearing.
Cohen gave the example of training a dog to perform a trick that earns it a treat. If the dog simply finds the treat cupboard, it gets the treat without the need of a human. Then, Cohen took it further:
“If you imagine going into the woods to train a bear with a bag of treats, by selectively withholding and administering treats, depending on whether it is doing what you would like it to do, the bear would probably take the treats by force.”
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