artificial intelligence a threat to humanity

[Zathganastan]

What do most people feel about AI robot's that think for themselves.
Is it a threat to humanity or just anorther part of the future.

[New Manvir]

They're only a threat if we don't use technology to augment our own bodies first.

[Diseased Imaginings]

I don't fear it. In fact, I think once medical tech and neuroscience advance enough in the next few decades, we'll see people first start to have embedded microchips with algorithms and memory integrated into human nervous systems. We're very quickly approaching the verge of a post-organic evolution in humankind, and I find it exhilarating.

[Lacadaemon]

Definite threat. I repeat my warnings about the future belonging to tiny robots.

[Syvorji]

Source?

[Galla-]

I don't fear it. In fact, I think once medical tech and neuroscience advance enough in the next few decades, we'll see people first start to have embedded microchips with algorithms and memory integrated into human nervous systems. We're very quickly approaching the verge of a post-organic evolution in humankind, and I find it exhilarating.

This.

[Zeth Rekia]

What do most people feel about AI robot's that think for themselves.
Is it a threat to humanity or just anorther part of the future.

The latter....

[Natapoc]

Humanity is the greatest threat to humanity.

AI is currently producing things with the intellectual capacity of a retarded insect at best.

If we make it to the point that AI becomes a threat we will have done amazingly well.

[Floreria]

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[Milograd]

Humanity is the greatest threat to humanity.

Very this.

Nothing can be verified, for none is all knowing.

[Seydari]

Our Nation officially views Artificial Intelligence as the future of evolution! Humanity and AI will co-adapt to coexist!

[Extra Sauce]

It's silly to be afraid of science and technology.

[Nekronia]

Not today, but in 30-40 years it could. If you were referring to just technology well...

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[Milograd]

It's silly to be afraid of science and technology.

Say that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is a reason that people fear technology and science.

[Zathganastan]

It's silly to be afraid of science and technology.

True but if you think about it AI in most media end up destorying humanity

[Lackadaisical2]

AI is currently producing things with the intellectual capacity of a retarded insect at best.

I lol'd.

I'm not too worried about AI, if our robotic overlords are wise they will keep the beer flowing or face my wrath.

[Milograd]

It's silly to be afraid of science and technology.

True but if you think about it AI in most media end up destorying humanity

Media is hardly a source to draw assumptions about reality from, at least the type you are referring to.

[Kubra]

By the time we've got enough understanding of the mind and this understanding can be applied to computer in order to create a proper Artificial Intelligence we'll probably end up just replacing ourselves voluntarily with robots.

[Extra Sauce]

It's silly to be afraid of science and technology.

Say that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is a reason that people fear technology and science.

It's not a good reason. Fear of the future's potential doesn't justify trying to get in its way. People should be vigilant about how things are used instead of preventing their development.

True but if you think about it AI in most media end up destorying humanity

That's fiction. I read a buttload of sci-fi and such, and I sure don't let fiction poison my perception of technology.

[Zathganastan]

True but if you think about it AI in most media end up destorying humanity

Media is hardly a source to draw assumptions about reality from, at least the type you are referring to.

Yes but most people draw there opinion from media.

[Extra Sauce]

Media is hardly a source to draw assumptions about reality from, at least the type you are referring to.

Yes but most people draw there opinion from media.

We call those idiots. Who else is unable to distinguish fiction from reality?

[Milograd]

Media is hardly a source to draw assumptions about reality from, at least the type you are referring to.

Yes but most people draw there opinion from media.

And thats why we have so many people who struggle to analyize whats going on in the world, instead of absorbing every tweaked fact they get from the media and interpreting it as fact.

[Zathganastan]

Yes but most people draw there opinion from media.

We call those idiots. Who else is unable to distinguish fiction from reality?

That would be Most of the earth's population.

[Milograd]

Say that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is a reason that people fear technology and science.

It's not a good reason. Fear of the future's potential doesn't justify trying to get in its way. People should be vigilant about how things are used instead of preventing their development.

So you are saying technology and science is nothing to be afraid of? Have you ever seen the effects of human technology through out the ages? Dear lord, there used to be a time when guns and tanks and inter-continental-ballistic-missiles didn't exist. You can't possibly think that technology is nothing to be afraid of.

[Disgruntled militia]

the "Frankenstein Complex" has been almost totally removed from SF writing for almost half a century, it only persists because movies with evil robots and explosions sell so well.
Anyway, all of the mentioned concerns vanish when you apply Asimov's three laws. I love simple solutions.

Edit: I hesitate to use this line but; Guns don't kill people, people kill people
Also, even as improvements in technology give us the ability to kill each other better the same improvements save millions of lives and support exponential population growth. There are more humans on earth now than ever before, despite every war ever fought.