Our AI Future: Widespread Job Losses, Fraud, & Cyberhacking, Killer Robots, Disinformation Everywhere... and the End of Humanity???
AIs and robots are quickly becoming powerful Humanity is currently creating “artificial intelligences.” The power and intelligence of these new non-biological agents is improving exponentially, and exponential growth implies rapid, unpredictable change. A huge factor underlying the uncertainty around how rapidly AIs will advance is how quickly AIs will become proficient at making themselves more intelligent. AIs are beginning to “pick themselves up by their bootstraps” and rewrite their own code to learn faster and think more effectively:...