Risks of Artificial Intelligence – thinking wires – Medium

Most superintelligent systems will by default develop instrumental subgoals that conflict with human interests. This could have catastrophic consequences. If we don't actively work on control mechanisms and safety of AI systems, this will most likely pose an existential risk to humanity. Artificial intelligence is all around us in many parts of every day life; our phones find the fastest way to move from A to B, spam is automatically filtered out of our email inboxes, and Netflix recommends movies and tv-shows tailored to our likings. For the near future, AI promises many changes of how we live: from self-driving cars to intelligent fridges. Obviously, there is a great interest in developing stronger, faster and more intelligent AI systems. Giant companies such as Alphabet (Google), Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. have long realized how profitable and promising this field of research and development is. At the same time, governments have begun to invest in the military use of AI. Overall, there is a big hype around AI topics, especially when mentioning buzzwords such as deep learning.