#Google #Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying #AI Will Eliminate #Humanity

source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aqep/google-deepmind-researcher-co-authors-paper-saying-ai-will-eliminate-humanity

"What the new paper proposes is that at some point in the #future, an advanced AI overseeing some important function could be incentivized to come up with cheating strategies to get its reward in ways that harm humanity."

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“I'm not personally worried about being extinguished by a #superintelligent AI—that seems like a fear of #God. What concerns me is that it's very easy to be like 'OK, AI ethics is #bullshit.' Frankly it is. But, what are #ethics? How do we actually define it? What would sincere ethics be like? There's bodies of work on this, but we are still at the shallow end, " Abdurahman added. “I think we really need to deepen our engagement with these questions. I disagree with the way that apps have renegotiated the #social contract or the vision of #crypto bros, but what type of social contract do we want?"

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