{"id":18878,"date":"2015-07-27T23:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18878"},"modified":"2015-07-27T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T23:29:32","slug":"artificial-intelligence-ban-leading-pioneers-reject-in-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=18878","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Ban: Leading Pioneers Reject In Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak Say No To Skynet, Call For AI Weapons Ban<\/h1>\n

By Luke Villapaz
\nInternational Business Times <\/span><\/p>\n

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Scientist Stephen Hawking and Tesla CEO Elon Musk were among the thousands of scientists and people from the technology community that signed the open letter against AI weapons. Pictured: a prop endoskeleton arm from the movie “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” Mark Ralston\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over a thousand scientists, artificial intelligence experts, researchers and technology leaders have signed an open letter urging world governments to block the development of \u201coffensive autonomous weapons\u201d to prevent the start of a \u201cmilitary AI arms race.” The open letter<\/a> will be presented by the Future of Life Institute, during the opening of the \u201cInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence,” which begins Tuesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n

Among its signers are several high-profile members of the technology and science field, such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. In the letter, the authors argue against AI weapons. Last year, Musk also warned against the dangers of AI in a tweet<\/a>, calling it \u201cpotentially more dangerous than nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting,\u201d an excerpt from the letter reads. \u201cIf any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The authors of the letter further argue that AI could be used to make battlefields safer for humans, but development of AI weapons would make it easier for warlords, terrorists and dictators to conduct ethnic cleansings, assassinations or even control a populace.<\/p>\n

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Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.<\/p>\n

&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s a future that has also been depicted in pop culture as well. One of the most prominent examples is the \u201cTerminator\u201d film series, where a fictional AI computer called Skynet became self-aware and attempts to exterminate the human race with nuclear weapons and cyborgs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time that proactive steps were taken to prevent a futuristic arms race. In 1967, several nations signed the \u201cOuter Space Treaty<\/a>,\u201d in which participatory countries, such as the U.S., the U.K. and Russia, agreed to not place weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, on the moon or anywhere in space. To date, 103 nations are members of the treaty, with at least 20 that have yet to complete the ratification process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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