METAREALITY
REVIEW
Artificial Superintelligence:
A Futuristic Approach
By Roman V. Yampolskiy
Excellent Call to Action to Address Dangers of Artificial Intelligence
Yampolsky summarizes the Singularity Paradox (SP) as “superintelligent machines are feared to be too dumb to possess common
sense.” Put in even more simple terms, there is a growing concern
about dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) amongst some of the
world’s best-educated and most well-respected scientific leaders,
such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates.
T
he hazards of AI containment are discussed in some
detail in Artificial Superintelligence, yet in language
easily understandable to the
layman.
In Artificial Superintelligence, Yampolsky argues for
addressing AI potential dangers with a safety engineering approach, rather than with loosely defined
ethics, since human values are inconsistent and
dynamic. Yampolsky points out that “fully autonomous machnines cannot ever be assumed to be
safe,” and going so far as adding, “... and so should
not be constructed.” (p 186)
fully autonomous
machnines cannot ever be
assumed to be safe ... and so
should not be constructed.
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