It’s a problem that is troubling some of the biggest minds in the world right now, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our “greatest existential threat” and compared its development to “the call of the demon.”
He believes that super-smart cars could use people as pets.
Professor Stephen Hawking said she was “almost certain” that a major technological disaster would threaten humanity in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years.
He could steal jobs
More than 60% of people fear that robots will reduce their jobs in the next ten years, according to a 2016 YouGov poll.
And 27 percent predict that the number of jobs will fall “a lot”, with previous research suggesting that workers in the administrators and services sector will be the hardest hit.
In addition to being a threat to our workplaces, other experts believe that AI could “become dishonest” and become too complex for scientists to understand.
A quarter of respondents predicted that robots would be part of everyday life in just 11-20 years, with 18% estimating that this would happen in the next decade.
They could become dishonest
Professor Michael Wooldridge, a computer scientist, said that AI machines could become so complicated that engineers do not fully understand how they work.
If experts do not understand how AI algorithms work, they will not be able to predict when they will fail.
This means that cars without a driver or intelligent robots could make unpredictable decisions “out of character” at critical times, which could put people in danger.
For example, the AI behind a driverless car could choose to head for pedestrians or collide with barriers instead of deciding to drive sensibly.
It could destroy humanity
Some people believe that AI will completely wipe out people.
“Eventually, I think human extinction is likely to disappear, and technology is likely to play a role in that,” Shane Legg, DeepMind, said in a recent interview.
He highlighted artificial intelligence or AI as “the number one risk for this century.”
Musk warned that AI is more of a threat to humanity than North Korea.
“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Much more risky than North Korea, “the 46-year-old wrote on Twitter.
“Nobody likes to be regulated, but anything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc.) that is a danger to the public is regulated. There should be AI.
Musk has consistently advocated for governments and private institutions to enforce AI technology regulations.
He argued that controls are needed to protect cars from advancing out of human control