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Researchers Suggest Humans Aren’t Ready for 'Super Intelligent' AI

A new study from Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, questions whether the human race is capable of containing “superintelligent” artificial intelligence.

The research is focused on the way humans learn and, subsequently, teach machines to mimic these human-associated strategies. However, as superintelligent AIs will exceed human intelligence, scientists are faced with a potentially existential threat to humans.

Could AI become a threat to Humanity?

Plank’s press release notes that superintelligent AIs already exist, independently performing tasks such as assisting mathematicians in solving outliers for famous proofs or helping scientists develop new candidate molecules to treat diseases. Machines, which race through billions of calculations, are helping us shorten the problem-solving time by decades, even centuries.

However, the vast amount of data computer hardware can process at once is as impressive as it is concerning. This is because AI technology could advance to such a point where human beings might not be able to contain it, should the technology falter and create its own directives.

In robotics, there are a set of rules known as Asimov’s Laws aimed at preventing machines or AIs from harming people or be instructed to do so. The researchers, however, argue that we don’t have an instrument to enforce these laws. What exactly AI can teach itself, and will Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics become our primary defense mechanism against a rogue AI?

“Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) impossible,” researchers say.

A superintelligent AI will have acquired so much knowledge that the human brain will be incapable of analyzing or even grasping anything planned by the machine. Not just that, but AI’s work will not resemble anything human-made.

While these perspectives sound scary, it is essential that scientists and computer researchers have this information so that they exercise more caution and not solely rely on the phantom of “Failsafe algorithms.”

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