Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

Almost everything you’ve ever seen in science fiction has already become a science fact.

By creating AI for good, we will create good AI.

Our modern world imposes targets that are often given higher priority than conforming to ethical values.

if smart and kind can fit together in one human, then maybe they can serve as the example we want to set for how the machines should be.

My incredibly wise ex, Nibal, once told me when our kids were young: ‘They are not mine, I don’t have the right to raise them to be what I want them to be. I am theirs. I am here to help them find a path to reach their own potential and become who they were always meant to be.’

the third inevitable – because we always screw things up, even though we try to hide it – is that errors and mistakes will be made. Then, when these are ironed out, because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, there is a very high likelihood – unless we change course – that the machines will not behave in our best interests.

Ever-raging though they seem to be, almost every emotion you have ever felt is rational. I would argue that emotions are a form of intelligence in that they are triggered very predictably as a result of logical reasoning, even if that reasoning is sometimes unconscious.

The first inevitable is that we, humanity, have already made up our mind. We will create AI and there is no conceivable scenario in which we will come together globally to halt its progress.

This need for specialization, the constrained bandwidth of our ability to communicate, our limited memory capacity and processing power, means even the smartest of minds is approaching the limits of human intelligence.