Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'
“We caution that AI tools are already being developed to elicit, infer, collect, record, understand, forecast, and ultimately manipulate and commodify human plans and purposes,” he said.
Tech Companies Are Seeking To Develop AI That Excels at Flattering and Manipulating Us
new technologies have regularly sparked visions of impending dehumanization and societal collapse.
Greg Beato • Superagency
Finally, because of the scale at which current AI can operate, there are many ways in which AI could (even in its still-primitive form) be used deliberately to cause serious public harm.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
I think the most worrisome aspect of AI systems in the short term is that we will give them too much autonomy without being fully aware of their limitations and vulnerabilities. We tend to anthropomorphize AI systems: we impute human qualities to them and end up overestimating the extent to which these systems can actually be fully trusted.
Melanie Mitchell • Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
A third reason to worry about the alignment problem of computers is that because they are so different from us, when we make the mistake of giving them a misaligned goal, they are less likely to notice it or request clarification. If the boat-race AI had been a human gamer, it would have realized that the loophole it found in the game’s rules proba
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Since the 1950s, discussions about AI have largely revolved around a big, tantalizing question: What can machines do, and where might they hit a wall? Will they ever truly think, understand, or maybe even become conscious? Could they reach the so-called “heights of human intelligence”? And then there’s that shadowy question looming in the backgroun
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