MIT artificial intelligence expert: There is a 50% chance that AI will wipe out humanity

Max Tegmark, a physicist and artificial intelligence expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently said in an interview with Swedish national broadcaster SVT that artificial intelligence has a 50% chance of wiping out mankind, and We won't know how or when it will happen because machines will be "much smarter than us."

According to reports, Professor Tegmark is one of the signatories of a 22-word single-sentence statement issued recently, which warns that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring the risk of human extinction.

The statement reads: "Mitigating the extinction risk posed by artificial intelligence should be a global priority, alongside other society-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

Max Tegmark, a physicist and artificial intelligence expert at MIT.

In an interview with Swedish national broadcaster SVT, Professor Tegmark said history shows that humans, the most intelligent species on earth, are responsible for the death of "smaller" species, such as the dodo.

He warned that if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans, the same fate could easily be our turn.

More importantly, he said, we won’t know when we will die at the hands of artificial intelligence because a less intelligent species would have no way of knowing.

Artificial intelligence may be used to create autonomous weapons or robots that can kill people.

It is reported that some of the world's top scientists believe that in the near future, artificial intelligence may be used to create autonomous weapons or robots that can kill people with or without human intervention.

At the same time, even seemingly benign artificial intelligence software can make decisions that are fatal to humans if the technology is not programmed carefully enough.

As early as 2018, Professor Tegmark warned that humans will one day be enslaved by the intelligent machines they create.

He even claimed at the time that some of his colleagues might welcome the extinction of species by artificial intelligence, viewing them as our natural descendants.

Another view is to keep the form of "superintelligence" under human control, "like an enslaved dog."

But Professor Tegmark warns that beyond any possible moral qualms about enslaving advanced minds, what we should be more worried about is that perhaps superintelligence will be smarter than us - that they could "break out and take over".

According to reports, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also outspoken when talking about the power of artificial intelligence.

In March of this year, Musk and 1,000 other technology leaders called for a moratorium on the "dangerous race" to develop artificial intelligence, which they feared would "pose profound risks to society and humanity" and could have "catastrophic" effects .

Text/Nandu reporter Chen Lin

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