#AI #GoodUseOfAI #BadUseOfAI #ThreatsOfAI #AIRegulation
Some people who are working on AI research are blowing the whistle on its unchecked development.
They are saying that AI could kill off all humanity in a few short years.
Some AI companies are offering options for how best to regulate AI to only do good.
But something that powerful in the wrong hands, or even left to its own devices unsupervised by humans, could be devastating.
Some of us might sit back and say the hyperbole is just that.
Others might curl up and think the worst is inevitable.
Uncertainty can activate impulses in one’s imagination, but it’s best for rational thinkers – even if they don’t yet know fully what AI can or can’t do – to plan the ultimate AI rollout with the proper vetting and, yes, imagination.
First, establish what AI can do, how best that function can be used for good and pass rules and regulations preventing the bad things from occurring.
That’s easier said than done, of course, but a good start might be to make the developing companies responsible for what their product(s) does and causes. They reap the rewards and cover the damage(s).
That may confine research, and it won’t stop every bad actor. Still, it’s a good start, considering the uncertainty.
Every tool developed over time has its good and bad applications. A hammer used on nails is good. A hammer used on, say, people, is bad.
But, a hammer is a simple tool. AI is much more complicated. The good potential that it has is combined with as much or more bad potential.
Having just celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, we see the good and bad things airplanes can do. Airplanes can do much more good, and much more evil, than a hammer.
The perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks wanted to kill us all. They killed some of us, but didn’t kill us all.
AI is much more complicated than an airplane. It must be rolled out with caution, careful consideration and with proper guardrails.
We cannot leave the creators to their own devices.
Remember, the creators have incentives to be careful. If their product kills all of humanity, who will pay them for their work?
As the average person, it’s important here to get a grip on AI. Just as it is unwise to presume that the better angels will prevail as it rolls out, it’s also unwise to believe that ONLY bad actors will control it.
Make sure you do all that you can to elect people who have courage to encourage the good and stop the bad. This is no time for laissez-faire attitudes.
Whether AI destroys humanity may not be in the hands of its creators and users entirely. It may be in the hands of those who set boundaries for the creators.
As with anything, bad actors can create weapons from very useful things. We must be diligent in making sure as few bad actors as possible get their hands on this technology.
What happens to you personally may not always be in your control. But, if it doesn’t kill you, it could make you stronger.
Peter
Tag Archives: 2001
DON’T ROLL OVER; KEEP ROLLING
#RollOver #KeepRolling #circumstances #goals #success
Roll over!
You may ask a dog to do that as a “trick.”
You may applaud an infant for doing that, as he or she shows his or her first sign of independence.
But when adults “roll over,” they are seen as giving in or, worse, giving up.
Instead of rolling over, keep rolling.
We are often tempted to roll over. Those who wish to dominate us want us to roll over.
They will frustrate us to the point that we, indeed, want to roll over.
If you must tolerate the frustration others impose on you, tolerate it without rolling over.
If you don’t have to tolerate the frustration, find a situation from which the frustration disappears, and you can do what’s best for you without interference.
Alas, it’s so much easier to just roll over. However, successful people don’t look for the easy thing. Instead, they face the hard thing head on. They may indeed roll with the punches, but they do not roll over.
They may not find success instantly. For some, it may take 40 years or more to become an overnight success. In all that time, they did not roll over. They kept rolling.
Todd Beamer told his fellow airline passengers on Flight 93 Sept. 11, 2001: “let’s roll.” The passengers stood up to the hijackers. The plane crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania. But their actions prevented the plane from crashing into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. All those passengers, including Beamer and the flight crew, died. But they did not roll over. They rolled.
Sometimes, circumstances prevail. Sometimes, all the fight and effort we can muster does not get us the results we want. Sometimes, we do not outlive our obstacles.
Still, that does not mean we should PRESUME circumstances will always win. Instead, we keep rolling in the right direction. We roll toward the goal. We don’t stop. We don’t roll over.
Those who want to dominate us – get us to roll over – will insert more obstacles in our way, to the best of their ability.
Some of those obstacles may stop us temporarily. They may tempt us to roll over. But, with every fiber of our beings, we keep rolling.
On some days, we may have to look for the strength to keep rolling. We do that by telling ourselves that every slammed door eventually will take us to an open one. We hope to remain upright to the cause or goal. If we get knocked down, we get up.
To paraphrase an old adage: You will find me either at the top of the mountain, or dead on the side. But I will not go back to the bottom.
In short, don’t roll over. Keep rolling.
Peter