Saturday 21 January 2017

Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity

Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity

A new report authored by a group of independent US scientists advising the US Dept. of Defense (DoD) on artificial intelligence (AI) claims that perceived existential threats to humanity posed by the technology, such as drones seen by the public as killer robots, are at best “uninformed”. Still, the scientists acknowledge that AI will be integral to most future DoD systems and platforms, but AI that could act like a human “is at most a small part of AI’s relevance to the DoD mission”.

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