what are the risks of artificial intelligence and what should we be doing about them
the idea of AI has been around for decades but recent advances have completely transformed
what we can achieve with the technology and as a result many experts believe we're teetering on
the edge of an AI Revolution this is fantastic news if you're struggling with really naughty
problems like how to cure incurable diseases or solve world hunger or designing safer and faster
ways of getting from A to B or even transforming how people learn here smart machines are already
Paving the way to doing things which would have been impossible without them but there
are downsides to creating machines that can think and act way faster than humans and often in ways
that we don't understand because of this we need to be thinking now about what might possibly go
wrong so we avoid potentially disastrous mistakes in the future and this is more important than ever
with the rise of transformative AI Technologies like gpt4 and other large language models as we
grapple with the coming AI Revolution here are 10 things we should probably be thinking about now
One machines that make it harder to think for ourselves of course apps like chat GPT Bing
and even Google are already doing that to some extent but the more we rely on Smart machines
to do stuff for us the more we risk losing skills that we may one day regret two machines that take
away jobs this is a huge issue as smart machines begin to outperform smart people the big question
is whether we can keep on inventing jobs that humans do better or if we need to consider a
future without paid jobs three machines that learn from our worst habits as we train smart
machines will they end up as opinionated biased and anti-socialists some of their human trainers
the evidence so far is that unless we work hard on avoiding this sadly they will 4. machines that
make decisions we don't understand imagine failing a job interview or flunking a class or being fined
or because a machine made a decision that no one could explain but you had to live with it anyway
scarily we're already on the slippery slope of giving smart machines the authority to make such
decisions without being accountable for them 5. machines that don't understand what's important
to people imagine an AI that has the power to change your life but it has its own ideas of
what's important and what's acceptable great if you both agree but a nightmare if you don't
six machines that kill people of course machines kill people all the time but usually there's a
person making the final decision what happens when we replace that person with another machine
seven machines that alter their own instructions interestingly we want machines that can think for
themselves when solving complex problems but what if they get too smart eight machines that make
smart dumb decisions we know that smart people can make decisions that look really stupid with
hindsight especially when they can't appreciate the full consequences of their actions sadly from
what we know of complex systems smart machines are likely to have exactly the same problem
nine machines that decide we are not needed if AIS get so smart that they realize that people
are a waste of space the good news is that we're probably a long way off from super intelligent
machines that are disdainful of mere human beings but it's worth thinking about just in case
and 10 machines that use our human weaknesses to controllers what are the chances that we create
machines that are smart enough to understand our human foibles and use them against us if we're not
careful we won't fear our AI overlords we will worship them of course despite these and other
risks AI could make our lives amazingly better if it's developed responsibly but this won't
happen if we don't think about the possible downsides up front the good news is that AI
developers are already beginning to do this but we're going to need a whole lot of input from
experts in many other areas if the benefits of AI at a far outweigh the risks [Music]