Anyone who has ever watched the film Colossus - The Forbin Project or enjoyed the revamped Battlestar Galactica or read Robert Sawyer's The Terminal Experiment will know that artificial intelligence, whether embraced willingly or created accidentally, never ends well. Safeguards are overlooked or abandoned, or sometimes the A.I. develops unintended abilities that spell disaster for humanity. Hubris, as the Greeks taught us, can be deadly.
The speed at which A.I is developing in the real world suggests it is time for some sober second thought. The fact that that is not happening, as you will see in the following, is testament to the competitive nature of entitles like Google and Microsoft. We may currently be enthralled by developments like GPT Chat, but are do we truly understand it and its potential, both for good and ill?
If you only have time to watch one of the two following videos, watch the first one. The second one is a more in-depth examination of the topic.
No doubt those who oppose or urge caution in this rapid evolution of A.I. will be dismissed by many as Luddites. I have the feeling, however, that to label them thus is taking a real gamble with humanity's future.
