Advanced AI and The End of The World

As we all know many Pop Culture movies are about how advanced AI spells doom for humanity. We see this in movies like Terminator and The Matrix. But is this what will happen? Will we be slaves to our Robot overlords?

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, thinks so.

And he's not wrong to think that. If there is an AI Programmed to out think enemies in the military and devise battle strategies, it could potentially start fearing shut down and make us the target and launch a full scale invasion against the human race.

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"I'm very close to the cutting-edge of AI, and it scares the hell out of me," Elon Musk said at SXSW 2018. "It is capable of vastly more than anyone knows, and the rate of improvement is exponential. […] We have to figure out some way to ensure that the advent of digital super intelligence is one which is symbiotic with humanity. I think that's the single biggest exponential crisis that we face" (Dickinson).

And Musk is right. The way and speed of how fast AI can adapt, or rather, evolve is terrifying. Next week someone could create a super intelligence and just like that it can end us all.

Maybe that's not very realistic but not thinking about the idea that AI could lead to our defeat is just as scary.

How we see computers is dependent on your experience even if you don't know anything about them you could still be scared of something that learn to feel emotion. However, You could be ignorant and think that AI will never go wrong and nothing bad could possibly happen with AI.

If something can go wrong, it eventually will.

When thinking about AI its easy to think of ways that it can help us and it definitely can. But the idea that it can potentially kill us all is in many of our minds.



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