Will AI really destroy humanity?
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The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late.But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity? - Paperclips of doom - Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will outstrip human capacities, escape human control and refuse to be switched off."Once we have machines that have a self-preservation goal, we are in trouble," AI academic Yoshua Bengio told an event this month.But because these machines do not yet exist, imagining how they could doom humanity is often left to philosophy and science fiction.Philosopher Nick Bostrom has written about an "intelligence explosion" he says will happen when superintelligent machines begin ...