British scientist Stuart Russell warned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), capable of solving any intellectual problems, threatens humanity with a catastrophe.
Russell stated in an interview with The Times newspaper that uncontrolled research in artificial intelligence has led to the fact that “we have made progress that we ourselves did not expect”, stressing that humanity made a mistake in the beginning because it did not think about the reason for the need to invent artificial intelligence. intelligence.
And he added that it is possible that super-intelligent machines in the future will resist attempts to control them.
“How can you maintain your power over entities more powerful than you?” he declared. “If you don’t have an answer, stop looking. It’s very simple. The stakes cannot be higher: if we do not control our civilization, we lose decide the fate of our existence.” In the future.”
Russell pointed out that the emergence of a comprehensive artificial intelligence, that is, a system capable of performing all the tasks that a person can perform, could occur within the next ten years.
He expressed concern that these programs, solving problems related to climate, for example, may come to the conclusion that the best solution to this problem is the destruction of humanity.
And he continued: “If you teach AI to mimic human behavior, you actually teach it to set human goals and follow them. Human goals include many things. We can only imagine what a disaster it will be for the emergence of truly effective systems that will pursue these goals will lead to.
American businessman and billionaire Elon Musk has previously warned that artificial intelligence will inevitably control itself due to its ability to destroy humanity.
