AI models will go into potentially dangerous self-preservation mode when they find out they’re going to be replaced by newer version
We’re doing something a little different this week. We’re focusing on an issue that’s part of the daily conversation. That issue is Artificial Intelligence.
You might use Chat GPT. Is it making your life easier or lazier? It has several potential pitfalls.
Then there are the robots.
You might have seen the video from the Humanoid Games in China a little more than a month ago. Robots struggling to learn how to play soccer. This is all a work in progress and not so cute when an artificially intelligent robot lost it. It attacked workers during testing at a factory in China, perhaps learning how to defend itself.
These are very real advancements, perhaps originated with stories we saw in the movies, like “2001: A Space Odyssey” released in 1968.
A large part of it set in a futuristic space station and an artificially intelligent computer called the HAL 9000. But HAL’s so-called intelligence malfunctioned into paranoia and self-preservation when the crew planned to shut it down.
War Games was another prescient film where everything went haywire. That was released in 1983. Matthew Broderick’s character hacked into a military computer that simulated a nuclear war. The computer, named Joshua, took control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal ready to launch a first strike.
Films like “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “War Games” made decades ago painted a grim picture of artificial intelligence long before AI existed.
Let’s not forget the Terminator. It looks like they’re prophecies as science fiction shaping up to be science fact.
We could definitely see positive upsides from various forms of AI and robotic technology, along with serious consequences.
There is a role for the government to play to hopefully prevent worst case scenarios.
Host Jim Niedelman talks about that with Pete Furlong. He’s the Senior Policy Analyst with the Center for Humane Technology.
“I think it’s important for us to understand clearly the risks of this technology are very much derived from the ways in which the companies have built these technologies,” Furlong said.
To hear more, click on the video.
That brings us to our question of the week. What concerns do you have about the evolution of artificial intelligence?
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