AI & Safety

Implications of AI in relation to safety within our world and its future:

Although I believe that AI is capable of being a very useful source in helping us accomplish strenuous or time consuming tasks faster, more efficiently and more accurately, it also poses a possible threat to us as humans. Since our brains are only capable of containing so much information over a lifetime, we have a cap on how much we can accomplish. How I see AI is a type of creation that not only will outlive a human lifetime but can learn faster, better and more in shorter periods of time while retaining the ability to also live forever as well. I am worried that if we make them too efficient, they will learn how inefficient a human might be in comparison, thus posing a threat to us as humans in general just like the initial video we witnessed in class today.

Along with that, I am worried that some of the best minds in the world are also worried about how AI could alter our future. When some of the most intelligent people in existence fear something, it is probably a smart assumption to at least partially agree with their mindset. Even though there are a lot of possible ways that AI could improve our existence and future existence, it could also pose a real threat to our overall safety if it becomes significantly more intelligent than us. Maybe our generation wouldn't have to face that problem but a generation in the immediate future would have to so we can't be selfish in what we create now. Perhaps a way to prevent unsafe outcomes would be to provide some sort of cap on the learning abilities of the more advanced AI technologies created. But then another question would be, who gets to draw that line?