It’s a problem that currently occupies some of the greatest minds in the world, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our “greatest existential threat” and likened its development as “summoning the demon.”
He believes super intelligent machines can use humans as pets.
Professor Stephen Hawking said it is “almost certain” that a major technological disaster will threaten humanity in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years.
They could steal jobs
According to a 2016 YouGov study, more than 60 percent of people fear that robots will lead to fewer jobs in the next decade.
And 27 percent predict it will cut the number of jobs “ a lot, ” with previous research suggesting workers in the administration and services sectors will be hit the hardest.
Other experts are not only a threat to our jobs, but also believe that AI can become ‘rogue’ and become too complex for scientists to understand.
A quarter of respondents predicted that robots will become a part of everyday life in just 11 to 20 years, while 18 percent predict that they will within the next decade.
They could be ‘rogue’
Computer scientist Professor Michael Wooldridge said AI machines can get so complicated that engineers don’t fully understand how they work.
If experts don’t understand how AI algorithms work, they can’t predict when they will fail.
This means that self-driving cars or intelligent robots can make unpredictable ‘out of character’ decisions at critical moments, putting people at risk.
For example, the AI behind a self-driving car could choose to bump into pedestrians or bump into barriers instead of deciding to drive sensibly.
They could wipe out humanity
Some people think AI will wipe people out completely.
“Ultimately, I think the extinction of humans is likely to occur, and technology will likely play a part in that,” DeepMind’s Shane Legg said in a recent interview.
He called artificial intelligence, or AI, the “greatest risk for this century.”
Musk warned that AI poses a bigger threat to humanity than North Korea.
If you’re not worried about AI safety, you should be. Much more risk than North Korea, ”the 46-year-old wrote on Twitter.
“Nobody likes to be regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc.) that poses a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too. ‘
Musk has consistently advocated for governments and private institutions to enforce regulations on AI technology.
He has argued that controls are necessary to keep machines from getting out of hand