Not Creating A.I. May Be a Bigger Threat to Humanity, Says Facebook Expert

Artificial intelligence could outsmart and enslave humanity, but our species' future could turn out even worse if we don't advance in the field. That's according to Tomas Mikolov, a research scientist at Facebook A.I. Research, who believes that catastrophic events could have a detrimental effect on society, and it may be machines that save humans from themselves. "There are these arguments that maybe we should not develop A.I. because it's going to destroy us," Mikolov said at the Human-Level Artificial Intelligence conference in Prague, Czech Republic on Saturday, describing this scenario as resulting from science fiction drama. "What if actually not achieving A.I. is the biggest existential threat for humans? As the technology is getting increasingly complex, we are producing more artificial substances that could get into the environment. We as humans are actually very bad at making predictions. What will happen in some distant time, 20, 30 years from now if we make some bad decisions? Maybe actually it will be A.I. that will help us to become much smarter."