[ExI] The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 3:20 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
> By KAI-FU LEE  JUNE 24, 2017
>
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/
> artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality.html>
>
> Quotes:
>
> BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial
> intelligence?
>
> Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi
> thriller. People worry that developments in A.I. will bring about the
> “singularity” — that point in history when A.I. surpasses human
> intelligence, leading to an unimaginable revolution in human affairs.
> Or they wonder whether instead of our controlling artificial
> intelligence, it will control us, turning us, in effect, into cyborgs.
>
> On the contrary, the A.I. products that now exist are improving faster
> than most people realize and promise to radically transform our world,
> not always for the better. They are only tools, not a competing form
> of intelligence. But they will reshape what work means and how wealth
> is created, leading to unprecedented economic inequalities and even
> altering the global balance of power.
>
> Unlike the Industrial Revolution and the computer revolution, the A.I.
> revolution is not taking certain jobs (artisans, personal assistants
> who use paper and typewriters) and replacing them with other jobs
> (assembly-line workers, personal assistants conversant with
> computers). Instead, it is poised to bring about a wide-scale
> decimation of jobs — mostly lower-paying jobs, but some higher-paying
> ones, too.
>
> This transformation will result in enormous profits for the companies
> that develop A.I., as well as for the companies that adopt it.
>
> We are thus facing two developments that do not sit easily together:
> enormous wealth concentrated in relatively few hands and enormous
> numbers of people out of work. What is to be done?
> --------------------
> ​Finland, I believe, is set to try a guaranteed income.  Let's see what
> comes of that.  I don't see any way out of it.
>

​bill w​

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> BillK
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