Preparing for the Biggest Change in Human History - Future of Life Institute

Importance Principle: Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. In the history of human progress, a few events have stood out as especially revolutionary: the intentional use of fire, the invention of agriculture, the industrial revolution, possibly the invention of computers and the Internet. But many anticipate that the creation of advanced artificial intelligence will tower over these achievements. In a popular post, Tim Urban with Wait But Why wrote that artificial intelligence is "by far THE most important topic for our future." Or, as AI professor Roman Yampolskiy told me, "Design of human-level AI will be the most impactful event in the history of humankind. It is impossible to over-prepare for it."