What are the potential dangers of artificial intelligence?

Question

Could these dangers be tempered by integrating human minds with machine minds, so that humans wouldn't be out-competed by a superior intellect? Or would that just create a new problem entirely?

Answer 1

Driving people out of work isn't really a problem, unless there ISNT some form of compensation to keep the money flowing to the demanders, who keep the machines working, and therefore the economy.



Dangers, would be robots working or having an agenda to kill human beings or any life on earth that wasn't causing illness to humans. They would have to be remotely Anthropocentric.



Another danger might be enslavement, but even if it was, if they were working to benefit mankind rather than cause them ailments, poverty, suffering, than that slavery might even be desired.



I can think of beings, even bots, in two time-lines, those that destroy the most powerfully, and those that can create the most powerfully.



Our first propagation of life outside of earth, into colonies, most likely will be of robotic-kind or cyborg kind.

Answer 2

I think it will be a long time before any artificial intelligence is in a position to harm humanity. We are much more likely to be threatened by our species own natural aversion to intelligence. If a robot ever becomes like Hitler, it won't be any different to the countless real people alive today who could potentially wreak the same kind of havoc as Hitler. Human Hitler, artificial Hitler, a Hitler is a Hitler. What happened in 1939 could rear its ugly head at any time. It is humanity's never-ending struggle to keep the more socially destructive behaviour at bay. An artificial intelligence could indeed be dangerous - if it is our creation, then it is bound to be a reflection of our own nature, our on values.Could artificial intelligence represent a danger greater than that which we face every day? I'm not sure.

Answer 3

We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Answer 4

huge potential dangers

- drives people out of work

- does not improve economy

- will detract from nature and humanity

- is cold and detached - should not be in position of power

- can be used for bad, and the consequences of that would be enormous.

Answer 5

You mean, like, the possibly devastating effects of proliferate self-replicating nanotechnological particles?



Or do you mean more, like, the possibly devastating effects of marrying a hot chick, only to discover she's a robot after suffering third degree burns to your junk because she short-circuited during coitus?

Answer 6

Someone might create artifical "inteligence" as smart as the Cybernetic ghost of Chistmas past



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a1LV1IeG8U&feature=related

Answer 7

Super-intelligent cyborgs ? What could possibly go wrong ?

"It will come it will come it will surely come ..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0k_o8gfQI&feature=related



Iain Banks wants a word with you by the way. He says you aren't reading his books quickly enough.

Answer 8

If the AI robots are smart enough not to watch reality shows, I say we let them take over.

Answer 9

There are no possible dangers...I repeat no possible dangers...now go back to sleep, everything is alright..I repeat everything is alright...Signed your local A.I.

Answer 10

Screw it. Let's let them take over and we can sit and Yahoo! all day.