Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Dangers of AI Technology
The danger is that we're putting a lot of difficult moral decisions in the hands of machines. Machines may not have the same understanding of what is right and wrong as we do. The eyes are embedded into the weapons, the military, then it just gets easier to have large-scale, dangerous impact. If we build AI systems with agency and autonomy, and they can kill because they are weapons, it just makes the likelihood of something really catastrophic happening larger.
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