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James McKenna's avatar

Great piece. I would love to hear what you think are the most likely catastrophic, as well as positive, scenarios you predict machine intelligence will have on society. It’s one thing to speak abstractly about catastrophe, but another to make a detailed predictions about what you think will actually happen - I.e. what happens realistically when machine intelligence has an IQ of 600. Can you write a piece about that?

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David Kingsley, PhD's avatar

Jim, thanks for the input! I think this is a great idea and I plan to explore such scenarios in more detail in later posts. The landscape of machine intelligence could lead us to some truly awe-inspiring or nightmarish scenarios depending on how we allow things to unfold. On one hand, imagine a personal assistant AI with an IQ of 600 collaborating with scientists and engineers to solve intricate global challenges, pioneering advancements in medicine, energy, and more. On the other hand, this level of intelligence could also magnify existing problems or create entirely new ones. Furthermore, would a human have any cognitive value when juxtaposed to a 600-IQ robot? This is my true fear, that we become unable to provide value due to our vastly inferior intellect.

In an upcoming piece, I plan to delve into these possibilities and outline some of these utopian or dystopian scenarios. I agree that using tangible examples of how super-intelligent AI could revolutionize sectors like healthcare, education, and research, while addressing concerns about how this is likely to go off the rails without similarly scaling human intelligence may help draw attention to this issue.

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David's avatar

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the risks of AI - Kanye West

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David Kingsley, PhD's avatar

I couldn't tell whether or not this was a real Kanye quote without googling!

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