Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
August 15, 2012
Promises
of ‘immortality’ and a disease-free life have led many individuals to
long for the hope of artificial intelligence and what is known as
Singularity. It is essentially a merging of man and machine, the
development of a ‘new species’ — a ‘borg’ of sorts. The subject recently
made headlines when a major Russian scientist promised Singularity to
the wealthy elite and ruling class by 2045 through the
2045 program, with artificial bodies available as early as 2015.
On the surface it may sound enticing to those who are willing to
trust their new artificial brains and bodies hooked up to a massive
super computer that has control over their every action (through the
utilization of RFID-like chips).
Even the CEO of one of the largest and most well-known organizations
known as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence admits,
however, that the boom in artificial intelligence leading up to
Singularity will not go very well for humans.
The high-powered CEO admits that not only is the research on artificial
intelligence outpacing the safety research that is intended to keep it
in check, but that Singularity would actually make humans the ‘prey’ of
sorts to the ‘super-human’ AI.
While doing an open Q&A on the community website Reddit, CEO Luke Muehlhauser explains that the superhuman
AI would end up ‘optimizing’ the entire globe and starving resources from humans.
In other words, the AI would suppress humans similar to the premise of
iRobot or other similar works. This is particularly interesting when
considering that artificial bodies and brains have been promised first
to the wealthy elite by the 2045 program creator, allowing world rulers
and the financial elite to achieve ‘immortality’ and subsequently a
never-ending rule over the humans of the world.
Muehlhauser
explains how humans would become a ‘prey’ to the ruthless ‘super-human’ AI with the completion of Singularity:
“Unfortunately, the singularity may not be what you’re
hoping for. By default the singularity (intelligence explosion) will go
very badly for humans… so by default superhuman AIs will end up optimizing the world around us for something other than what we want, and using up all our resources to do so.“
The concerns echo those put forth by researchers and analysts who
have been following the concept of Singularity for decades. With the
ultimate goal of linking all hyper-intelligent androids into a
‘cognitive network’ of sorts and eventually even forfeiting physical
bodies, it’s clear that the Singularity movement even has its top
supporters openly speaking out against it in many regards. What’s even
more clear, however, is the fact that AI Singularity has no place for
humankind — not even in a form of co-existence.
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