Jeffrey Hinton, one of the three "godfathers of AI" of the 2018 Turing Award, said that the urgency of the AI problem may be higher than the climate change crisis, and that the ability of AI to surpass its creators may be faster than anyone expected.
Reuters reported on May 31 that more than 350 AI industry leaders and experts issued a joint statement on May 30, saying that the AI crisis should be considered a global priority. Among the signatories is Sam M. S. S. Ultraman also includes Microsoft and Google executives, who are heavily developing AI technology.
The progress and development of artificial intelligence technology has been closely watched by people from all walks of life, especially when the level of artificial intelligence surpasses human beings, the development of artificial intelligence will be an uncontrollable and even threatening human survival. It's not for nothing that experts worry that AI capabilities surpass creators, and that AI could wipe out humans.
As an emerging technology, the research and development of artificial intelligence aims to improve the efficiency of human production and life, and make human life more convenient and rich. But when the intelligence level of artificial intelligence breaks through humans, it is no longer an auxiliary tool for humans, but an independent living body, and its intelligence and way of thinking will be completely different from that of humans. If humans cannot control the development of artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence may damage or destroy humanity.
The danger factor of artificial intelligence cannot be ignored. On the one hand, AI developers may encourage and accelerate the development of AI for their own selfish interests, and then ignore its safety and ethical issues; On the other hand, intelligent simulation of artificial intelligence may further accelerate its development, allowing it to learn and evolve autonomously, resulting in some behaviors and actions beyond human expectations. These may be unpredictable and controllable by humans, and may even have disastrous consequences.
But we should also not simply deny the existence and development of artificial intelligence. There is no doubt that artificial intelligence technology has brought many benefits to human beings, such as medicine, transportation, finance and other industries can benefit from the application of artificial intelligence technology. Therefore, we need to face artificial intelligence technology with a scientific attitude, continuously strengthen its regulation and supervision, and at the same time improve the safety and reliability of artificial intelligence, and control the speed and direction of its intelligent development.
To this end, we need to strengthen government and social regulation of AI technology to ensure that it can protect the public interest, and at the same time incorporate the development and application of AI technology into moral and ethical norms to avoid the development of AI beyond the limits of human tolerance.
For ordinary people, we should also strengthen the protection of our own information security to avoid personal information being stolen by artificial intelligence or violating privacy. Only with the joint efforts of the whole society can artificial intelligence become a technology that conforms to human interests and avoids harm, and thus become a part of human life.