The great Stephen Hawking warned this week that artificial intelligence could be “the worst thing ever to happen to humanity,” further emphasizing his fear that it could soon fully replace humans and render mankind useless. Speaking at a technology conference in Lisbon, Hawking told the crowd th...
Dangers, Strategies. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems—"superintelligences" more capable than humans—might one day take over the world and destroy humanity.
11 by the Future of Life Institute, a volunteer organization that aims to mitigate existential threats to humanity. But many AI researchers say humanity is nowhere near being able to develop strong AI. "We are decades away from any technology we need to worry about," Demis Hassabis, an ...
This week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos, even though he thinks it's likely that such creatures would try to destroy humanity. Since at least 2010, Hawking has spoken publicly about his fears that...
Think this is an overreaction to this new technology? If so, consider this. Some of the pioneers of artificial intelligence like a former Google CEO are warning thatAI could destroy humanity in the next 5 to 10 yearsas quoted byForbes. ...
A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity. 2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C A slow response to a message could hurt not only your re...
Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids (小行星) and super volcanoes, but the more likely__26__, according to Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at Oxford, is that we human...
Justin Bieber becoming president of the United States? The point is, something would have to destroy civilization as we know it. You have to imagine how bad it would have to be to prevent us from making improvements in our technology permanently, generation after generation. ...
For example, people keep making fun of the "Nigerian prince" scams, but they continue to exist, because apparently they work. Who knows, maybe the same technology can be used to destroy humanity. Like, send everyone an SMS at the same time, asking them to follow your commands, and promis...
technology future philosophy AI humanity society vulnerability machine learning About the speakers Nick Bostrom works on big questions: What should we do, as individuals and as a species, to optimize our long-term prospects? Chris Anderson