[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Dr Amnon Eden said more needs to be done to look at the risks of continuing towards an AI world.Computers = toasters with keyboards
He warned that we were getting close to the point of no return in terms of AI, without a proper understanding of the consequences.
In fact, now they're putting little computers into toasters. We're gonna be attacked by breakfast!
Dr Eden said: "The New Year needs to see this ill-informed controversy replaced by a better informed analysis of the potential impact of AI and of its applications.
The Terminator is coming! Even worse: He'll be back!
"In 2016 expert risk analysis must gain a far greater role in the thinking of policy and decision makers, of governments and corporations."
Yes. We must trust government policy and decision makers. They know best.
Dr Eden is principal of the Sapience Project, a think-tank which has been formed to look at the potential disruptive impact of artificial intelligence AI.
What's Dr. Eden's doctorate in?
Science fiction has regularly explored whether robots could destroy mankind, most famously the Terminator films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Try "Colossus, The Forbin Project"...
From way before the days when kilobytes were the rage.
Dr Eden's stance comes after Oxford Professor Nick Bostrom said that super intelligence AI may “advance to a point where its goals are not compatible with that of humans”.
In which case it wouldn't be very intelligent, unless somebody was dumb enough to design one without a plug. I'd expect something like that from a government policy maker.