December 25, 2015 at 18:30Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking enrolled in Luddites of the Year
The panel of experts, calling itself the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, has published a list of nominations for the Luddit of the Year Award, which includes 10 items. According to the authors of the award, there are a fairly large number of people who believe that the development of future technologies, such as RFID tags or genetically modified organisms, is a danger to humanity. The first item on the list of "fears" is artificial intelligence (AI), and, according to the authors of the award, its danger is unreasonably stated by Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking. The Guardian Award drew the Luddite Award .
Indeed, some people, including Elon Musk, believe that the development of AI can ultimately lead to the “machine mind” acquiring some traits that are dangerous to humanity, as a result of which people will be enslaved or destroyed. Hollywood is eagerly exploiting this theme in such famous films as The Matrix or The Terminator, and thanks to this, the “fear of AI” has strengthened in the image of society. Last year, Elon Musk expressed concern that artificial intelligence could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons:
The authors of the award do not believe that such an opinion regarding the future of humanity is simply a misunderstanding of artificial intelligence at this stage of its development. The question of whether such a situation is possible in which AI can become truly autonomous and gain “intelligence” is a moot point and, at a minimum, a question not of the near future. So the efforts of scientists working on Siri or Nest thermostats are unlikely to lead to the fact that one day they want to destroy their creators.
The full list of Luddisms of the year is as follows. A document ( pdf ) is attached to it , in which the authors discuss the groundlessness of such representations.
As you know, Luddism is a social movement that arose during the industrial revolution in the UK, whose participants saw the main danger for themselves in the fact that new machines in production can replace them in the workplace and therefore equipment must be destroyed.
Indeed, some people, including Elon Musk, believe that the development of AI can ultimately lead to the “machine mind” acquiring some traits that are dangerous to humanity, as a result of which people will be enslaved or destroyed. Hollywood is eagerly exploiting this theme in such famous films as The Matrix or The Terminator, and thanks to this, the “fear of AI” has strengthened in the image of society. Last year, Elon Musk expressed concern that artificial intelligence could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons:
Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 3, 2014The authors of the award do not believe that such an opinion regarding the future of humanity is simply a misunderstanding of artificial intelligence at this stage of its development. The question of whether such a situation is possible in which AI can become truly autonomous and gain “intelligence” is a moot point and, at a minimum, a question not of the near future. So the efforts of scientists working on Siri or Nest thermostats are unlikely to lead to the fact that one day they want to destroy their creators.
The full list of Luddisms of the year is as follows. A document ( pdf ) is attached to it , in which the authors discuss the groundlessness of such representations.
- Fear of artificial intelligence.
- The ban on autonomous defensive weapons, the so-called "killer robots."
- Restrictions on the use of automatic number plate scanners.
- Restrictions on the use of Uber-like services.
- Refusal to use electronic labeling of goods instead of paper.
- Prohibiting the use of RFID tags in California driving licenses.
- Collisions between private property and public interests. This refers to the case in Wyoming (USA), when owners of private land through a court forbade members of a nonprofit organization to conduct biological research on their territory.
- Abolition of the principle of network neutrality
- The fight against genetically modified foods
- Restriction on the use of automatic fixation of violations of traffic rules
As you know, Luddism is a social movement that arose during the industrial revolution in the UK, whose participants saw the main danger for themselves in the fact that new machines in production can replace them in the workplace and therefore equipment must be destroyed.