British scientist Stuart Russell warned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) capable of solving any intellectual problems threatens humanity with disaster.
Russell said in an interview with the “Times” newspaper that uncontrolled research in the field of artificial intelligence led to the fact that “we have made progress that we ourselves did not expect,” stressing that humanity made a mistake in the beginning because it did not think about the reason for the need to invent artificial intelligence.
And he added that it is possible that the ultra-intelligent machines in the future will resist attempts to control them.
“How can you maintain your power over entities more powerful than you?” he declared. “If you don’t have an answer, stop looking. It’s all very simple. The stakes couldn’t be higher: if we don’t control our civilization, we lose the right to decide the fate of our existence.” In the future”.
Russell pointed out that the emergence of comprehensive artificial intelligence, that is, a system capable of carrying out every task that a person might perform, may take place within the next ten years.
He expressed his fears that these programs, while solving climate-related problems, for example, might come to the conclusion that the best solution to this problem is the elimination of humanity.
And he went on: “If you teach AI to imitate human behavior, you actually teach it to set and follow human goals. Human goals include a variety of things.. We can only imagine what a disaster the emergence of truly effective systems that will pursue these goals will lead to.” “.
The American businessman and billionaire, Elon Musk, had previously warned that artificial intelligence would inevitably control itself because of its ability to destroy humanity.
