Patrick Cosgrove
I want to be optimistic for when we have ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). My reasoning is simple. Every day the headline news proves conclusively that leaders of nations and their governments are not especially intelligent. If they were, they would realise that climate change, warfare, famine, and other factors that could lead to societal and environmental collapse are all the results of poor decision-making or no decision-making - particularly when so many solutions to these problems exist but are ignored. No individual leader, government, corporate or organisational body is capable of taking decisions free from, variously, political bias, personal prejudice, revenge, religious belief, greed, feelings of animosity to others etc, etc. I can, however, imagine an Artificial Super Intelligence, that can do far better than this. Of course, the creation of this utopia depends entirely on the motives of the people behind it. I wouldn't trust Musk or Zuckerberg as far as I could throw them. Of course, if it really is super intelligent, it will be clever enough to ignore any nefarious instructions it's been given . . "
I want to be optimistic for when we have ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). My reasoning is simple. Every day the headline news proves conclusively that leaders of nations and their governments are not especially intelligent. If they were, they would realise that climate change, warfare, famine, and other factors that could lead to societal and environmental collapse are all the results of poor decision-making or no decision-making - particularly when so many solutions to these problems exist but are ignored. No individual leader, government, corporate or organisational body is capable of taking decisions free from, variously, political bias, personal prejudice, revenge, religious belief, greed, feelings of animosity to others etc, etc. I can, however, imagine an Artificial Super Intelligence, that can do far better than this. Of course, the creation of this utopia depends entirely on the motives of the people behind it. I wouldn't trust Musk or Zuckerberg as far as I could throw them. Of course, if it really is super intelligent, it will be clever enough to ignore any nefarious instructions it's been given . . "