Artificial intelligence (“AI”) programs are already more
intelligent than humans and have a 20% chance of wiping humanity out,
Elon Musk said in an interview earlier this month.
There is a
lesson for mankind if AI is capable of annihilating humans and also
itself. When AI developers, and all of us, realise that AIs must adhere
to a community-sustaining moral code for humans and AIs to have a
non-annihilatory future, we will be forced into the realisation that so
do we.
Imagine, if you will, an intelligent being, many times
smarter and orders of magnitude faster thinking than a human, an
Artificial Super Intelligence with no heart and no conscience. That is
the very definition of a psychopathic genius in psychiatric terms or a
heartless demon in theological terms. That is what Elon himself and Sam
Altman (of Chat GPT) are potentially building. Elon admits that he has
lost sleep over this but opines that Sam Altman, who has corrupted the
original purpose of OpenAI which Elon himself originally set up, does
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