Scientists Start Planning for Doomsday

Scientists have teamed up artificial intelligence boosters to help predict many things, like when we will have teleportation or whether we can actually time travel. Veteran AI scientists Eric Horvitz and Lawrence Krauss (of Doomsday Clock fame) are working together with a group of experts to try to predict and stop doomsday from coming. They met last weekend at Arizona State, helped along by funding from Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn to create a team called "Envisioning and Addressing Adverse AI Outcomes." All in all, over 40 scientist, security experts, and policy makers broke into two teams: attackers (red) and defenders (blue) to reenact some of the AI-gone-wrong scenarios that could happen, including environmental problems, global warfare, and stock-market problems. Horvitz hopes that they all learned something from this, and believes that the team has taken a few steps ahead of the rest of the world, according to Bloomberg.