The AI Risk

There have been some very sensational articles in both the fringe and mainstream media about the AI risk to wipe out the human race!

Here is the statement on the Centre for AI Safety website that led to these stories :

Statement on AI Risk | CAIS (safe.ai)

The essay below is Bruce Schneier’s take on the issues – and he was a signature on the statement. Here is a quote to get you going:

I actually don’t think that AI poses a risk to human extinction. I think it poses a similar risk to pandemics and nuclear war—which is to say, a risk worth taking seriously, but not something to panic over. Which is what I thought the statement said.

Bruce Schneier

Here is the essay – read it and follow some of the links in it – after that you can make your own mind up on extinction or benefit or both!

On the Catastrophic Risk of AI – Schneier on Security

AI Risk – Some Context

Here are a couple of other articles and radio shows to give some context to Bruce’s essay.

Further Reading

AI could threaten some jobs, but it is more likely to become our personal assistant (theconversation.com)

AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work – BBC News

Further Listening

Professor Stuart Russell, the founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, at the University of California, Berkeley gave the 2021 Reith Lecture on artificial intelligence and people. Although things have moved on a lot in the last 18 months!

Something I am listening to – AI and why people should be scared

The Reith Lecture – “do not design algorithms that can decide to kill humans”

“What we’ll be doing when AI is doing most of what we currently call work” – The Reith Lecture

AI is the future and we cannot avoid the consequences – but what are we going to do about it?

Tea breaks

There we go – that should be enough to fill your tea and coffee breaks over the weekend.

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