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Tuesday 29 October 2024

Artificial intelligence without an artificial conscience is a heartless psychopath – and an extinction-level threat to humanity

 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 not....<<<Read More>>>...