Matters surrounding the future of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to be hot around the world.
The theme became even more present after renowned executives and prestigious scientists decided to expose their concerns. Some even believe in the ability of humans to annihilate over time.
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An open letter released on May 30 featured the signature of those responsible for large companies such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind. In fact, Goffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio also signed, and these two are considered the “godfathers” of modern AI.
The signatories' goal was just one: to try to lessen the potentially harmful effects that AI can cause. This issue should be treated as a global emergency on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars.
An article by the non-profit Center for Ai Safaty also reinforced many people's fears. The organization's CEO is Dan Hendrycks, who is a well-regarded AI scholar.
Entitled “Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans”, the text talks about natural selection favoring AI far more than humans.
How can AI wipe out humans?
First, know that the concern of scholars is not about simpler tools like ChatGPT and other AI that can make pictures, for example.
They talk about future intelligences capable of acquiring consciousness and taking action based on what they “want” and not what they were commanded to do.
According to the researchers and executives, an AI of this level would be capable of actions such as creating or releasing a highly lethal for humanity, disseminate various lying and misleading content with extreme efficiency, trigger nuclear bombs, etc.
In general, it is feared that a machine that came to the conclusion that humans are an evil to be fought would easily annihilate the species from the face of the Earth.
Such a catastrophic scenario would be preceded by the devastation of the job market and opportunities for people, among other consequences of the indiscriminate use of Artificial Intelligence.