AI will pose a serious risk to society within the next 50 years
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K. Eric Drexler Founding father of nanotechnology
AI technologies may reach thethreshold of rapid, open-ended, recursive improvement before we are prepared to manage the challenges posed by the emergence superintelligent AI agents.
Marcus Hutter Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at Australian National University
Way before the singularity, even when setting up a virtual society in our imagine, there are likely some immediate difference, for example that the value of an individual life suddenly drops, with drastic consequences.
Max Tegmark Professor at MIT & co-founder at Future of Life Institute
Superintelligent machines are quite feasible
Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT and Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Without careful restraint and tact, researchers could wake up to discover they've enabled the creation of armies of powerful, clever, vicious paranoiacs
Stephen Hawking British physicist
The primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very useful, but I fear the consequences of creating something that can match or surpass humans.Disagree:
