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Max Tegmark on Artificial Intelligence
We are biological machines, a naturally evolved intelligence bound in carbon and water. Our ambition to create an Artificial Intelligence in metal and silicon is probably unstoppable. We have already built machines vastly more capable at raw computations and data processing than our minds. But machines can’t recognize a face, reproduce, or learn unassisted. We can. Will machines ever exceed us in consciousness and willfulness? Would we be able to comprehend their minds and thoughts and motives if they do? Will they be malevolent?
Max Tegmark, Director of the Future of Life Institute and MIT professor, considers if humanity’s role in evolution will be to initiate the era of Artificial Intelligence at the peril of our own species. ♦