AI WHAT EXPERTS SAY W
e have screened the movies, watched the TV
shows, read the sci-fi novellas. We know the drill: The hotshot inventor plays God. The com- puter geek goes on a power trip. The lonely genius creates
an animatronic friend (or fiend). The greedy tech com- pany chooses profit over mor- al principle. Inevitably, pride goes be-
fore a fall, often with gargan- tuan consequences. Humans find a shiny new challenger to their top spot on the global food chain. A smarter, more advanced, cooler sentient be- ing with no emotions to slow it down. A cold, calculating, bloodless, heartless machine with a console, not a soul. We have been warned. In nearly all those movies
and scary stories, human be- ings, with their messy emo- tions, inconvenient compas- sion, irreverent humor, and creative imagination, come out on top. Brainy teenagers avert nu-
clear Armageddon. A brave cop prevents robot domina- tion. Neo takes the red pill. We have been scaring our-
selves with AI “what ifs” for over 150 years, from Erewhon to Metropolis to The Matrix. But what was once provocative entertainment, the inspiration for spirited dinner conversa- tions and killer Halloween cos- tumes, has become reality. The future is now. Just scan a spate of recent
news headlines: “Microsoft Says New A.I.
Shows Signs of Human Rea- soning,” reports The New York Times. “Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?” asks The New Yorker.
“BOTS TAKING OVER
NET; HALF OF TRAFFIC, MIMIC HUMAN BEHAV- IOR” blares a Drudge head- line. “A Secretive Annual Meet-
ing Attended by the World’s Elite Has A.I. Top of the Agen- da,” says CNBC. Recent comments from
prominent AI and tech ex- perts also read as blockbuster sci-fi. In March, more than 1,000 tech leaders, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Andrew Yang, signed an open letter warning about AI’s “profound risks to society and humanity.” Soon after, tech pioneer
Geoffrey Hinton quit his job at Google over his increasing fears of both human mischief and rogue computers, telling The New York Times, “It is hard to see how you can pre- vent the bad actors from using it for bad things. “The idea that this stuff
could actually get smarter than people . . . most people thought it was way off. And
“It’s very much a double- edged sword,” Elon Musk told CNBC. “There’s a strong probability that it will make life much better and that we’ll have an age of abundance. And there’s some chance that it goes wrong and destroys humanity.”
I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. “Obviously, I no longer
think that.” Microsoft’s research lead-
er Peter Lee “started off be- ing very skeptical — and that evolved into a sense of frustra- tion, annoyance, maybe even fear.” As Musk has acknowl-
edged: “It’s quite dangerous technology. I fear I may have done some things to acceler- ate it.”
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