[LINK] Steven Hawking warns of the dangers of AI

Salemicus

[Hawking] told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

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"It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate," he said. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."

There is, however, no mention of Friendly AI or similar principles.

In my opinion, this is particularly notable for the coverage this story is getting within the mainstream media. At the current time, this is the most-read and most-shared news story on the BBC website.

From the BBC:

[Hawking] told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

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"It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate," he said. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."

There is, however, no mention of Friendly AI or similar principles.

All of these high status scientists speaking out about AGI existential risk seldom mention MIRI or use their terminology. I guess MIRI is still seen as too low status.

There has certainly been increased general media coverage lately , and MIRI was mentioned in the Financial Times recently.

4Gondolinian12y

Perhaps they do, but the journalists or their editors edit it out?

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