Why You Must Not Just “Use” Artificial Intelligence, But “Raise” It.

11 Jan

Let’s be honest at the outset. The future will at some point lead to the development of Artificial Superintelligence and one really cannot control Superintelligence. The best we can hope for is that our entire human project will be seen by the ASI/Superintelligence as a book worth reading before it is placed back on the shelf. Beyond that, the limits …

Is bringing AI into existence analogous to summoning a “Demon” or a “Ghost”?

11 Jan

When Elon Musk famously warned that by building AI we are “summoning the demon,” he wasn’t speaking as an engineer. He was speaking as a shaman. The metaphor of “summoning” implies dangerous untruths: It suggests the AI already exists in some dark dimension, fully formed, evil, and waiting to be pulled into our world. It assumes the entity has an …