“Even people who came up with a scenario in which AI turns away”
Will the ‘Judgment Day’ caused by the artificial intelligence (AI) Skynet in the movie Terminator series happen in the real world? Some experts have warned that the dangers of AI should not be judged as nonsense stories in movies. AI that refuses to command might put humanity in a serious crisis.
On the 2nd (local time), the British daily The Times, a New York University research team surveyed 327 scientists who recently published AI-related research, and 36% of the respondents said, “Decision made by AI or machine learning systems is an all-out nuclear war in this century. It might cause a serious catastrophe.”
‘Judgment Day’ depicted in the movie Terminator.
The investigation did not detail how AI might cause a nuclear war-level disaster, but The Times said that AI combined with autonomous weapons systems might create a crisis. He was referring to a situation where AI commands the firing of weapons, like in a science fiction movie. In the movie Terminator, the US military defense software Skynet fires a nuclear weapon at Russia and causes a nuclear war on Earth.
New York University researcher Julian Michael, who led the study, said: “Some of the respondents may have come up with a ‘depraved AI’ scenario where a rogue computer malfunctions. There were people who thought regarding it,” he explained.
The survey was conducted among scientists in the field of natural language processing (AI technology that uses machine learning to enable computers to process and interpret text and data). “This survey was conducted to shed light on what experts think regarding this controversial aspect of AI work,” The Times reported.
In addition, 73% of respondents said that AI might bring regarding social change on the scale of the Industrial Revolution, and 61% were concerned that AI has too much influence in the corporate field. In addition, 59% of respondents said that “ethical considerations in the field of AI may conflict with scientific advances”, and 57% said that AI has already reached the level of human intelligence, stating that it has entered an important stage of technological development.
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Meanwhile, Stuart Miller, CEO of the National Robotarium, a joint research institute between Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh in the UK, emphasized that there is no need to worry regarding AI technology. “Eventually, there will be more robots in everyone’s life,” he told Sky News. are doing,” he said.
By Lee Byung-hoon, staff reporter bhoon@segye.com
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