Smart Machines are Not a Threat to Humanity

Alan Bundy

doi:10.1145/2950042

Smart Machines are Not a Threat to Humanity

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The root of my argument is that any AI threat comes, not from machines that are too smart, but from machines that are too dumb. Such dumb machines pose a threat to individual humans, but not to humanity. Worrying about machines that are too smart distracts us from the real and present threat from machines that are too dumb.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	40-42
Number of pages	3
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	60
Issue number	2
Early online date	23 Jan 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2950042
Publication status	Published - Feb 2017

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Artificial intelligence
Singularity

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Smart Machines are Not a Threat to Humanity

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The integration and interaction of multiple mathematical Reasoning Processes

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