If attempts by artificial word ( AI ) to designinspirational postersandphone casesare anything to go by , we have a long , long way to go before we have to start concern about aWestworld - like scenario . That ’s not to say that AI safety and regularization is not a present concern – or that scientists and world leaders are n’t currently debating the result . The modish to link the fray is Vladmir Putin .
address a crowd of students last Friday , the Russian chair ( known for his shaky phonograph recording onhuman rightsand a penchant forshirtless picture ) speak about AI and how he reckons it will shape and master global politics .
“ Artificial intelligence agency is the future tense , not only for Russia , but for all humankind , ” said Putin , according toRT . “ It come with colossal opportunities , but also threats that are unmanageable to predict . Whoever becomes the leader in this orbit will become the ruler of the reality . ”
It all sounds pretty forbidding .
Putin promised that Russia will share its intel on AI with other nations , fearing the consequences if any one power ever monopolise the manufacture .
" If we become leader in this surface area , we will deal this know - how with intact world , the same way we share our nuclear technology today , " he added .
He also mentioned autonomous weapons – an issue that has been gettinga lot of pressrecently . But while many have been extremely mistrustful of the possible action , Putin seems rather more electropositive . Future wars will be fought by monotone , he explicate , describe theAP . “ [ W]hen one party ’s drones are destroyed by monotone of another , it will have no other choice but to cede . ”
Stephen HawkingandElon Muskare two salient figures who have express concern about the threat of AI . Speaking to the US National Governors Association this summer , Musk warned : “ AI is the rarefied case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive . Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation , it ’ll be too late . AI is a rudimentary peril to the existence of human civilisation , ” he tote up .
He react to Putin ’s speech with a shivery foretelling .
But it ’s not just fanatic drawing card he ’s concerned about . It could be the case of the artillery ’s themselves initiating state of war if they conceive it ’s the fast route to triumph .
presently , China and America are in the race for leadership in the AI sphere . China latterly announced its ambitiousness to become a world leader in artificial intelligenceby 2025 .
While Trump ’s America has seenpublic fundingfor research programs cut , private companies are at the forefront of AI engineering .
