The latest Mission Impossible movie had a bad guy that felt very 2023. But AI doesn't need to be super intelligent in order to pose some pretty major risks. Researchers using AI often can't predict what outcome they're going to get. So if scientists don't account for every small detail in our society, it can solve problems in unexpected ways.
AI can often solve problems in unexpected, undesirable ways. So how can we make sure it does what we want, the way we want? And what happens if we can’t?
This is the second episode of our new two-part series, The Black Box.
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