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I wonder: Why should we care about what Musk and Hawking mean about AI? This article doesn't mention too much bad stuff, but earlier they have said that we should be afraid of AI/singularity.

With my thesis now in AI, I probably know far more than those two about this. And we're sooo far away from AI being a superforce destroying mankind.

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You can probably assume they are in contact with the leading experts in the field. From the letter:

    The initial version of this document was drafted by
    Stuart Russell, Daniel Dewey & Max Tegmark, with major
    input from Janos Kramar & Richard Mallah, and reflects
    valuable feedback from Anthony Aguirre, Erik
    Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo, Tom Dietterich, Dileep George,
    Bill Hibbard, Demis Hassabis, Eric Horvitz, Leslie Pack
    Kaelbling, James Manyika, Luke Muehlhauser, Michael
    Osborne, David Parkes, Heather Roff Perkins, Francesca
    Rossi, Bart Selman, Murray Shanahan, and many others.

They aren't the only ones who signed it, they just get top media billing because they always do. Other people who signed include AI researchers. Peter Norvig, for one.

I haven't read your thesis but does it take things like exponential progress, deep learning and higher and higher privileges and control over infrastructure into account?

It doesn't have to be conscious to be dangerous.

>> And we're sooo far away from this being a problem.

If we're far away from this being a problem, we may be far away from understanding how to solve it. We certainly wouldn't want the former to outpace the later, given what is at stake.

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