When you say autonomous AIs, do you mean AIs that are autonomous and superinteligent?
Do you think they could he deployed by basement hackers, or only by large organisations?
Do you think an organisation like the military or business has a motivation to deploy them?
Do you agree that there are dangers to an FAI project that goes wrong?
Do you have a plan B to cope with a FAI that goes rogue?
Do you think that having a AI potentially running the world is an attractive idea to a lot of people?
When you say autonomous AIs, do you mean AIs that are autonomous and superinteligent?
AIs that are initially autonomous and non-superintelligent, then gradually develop towards superintelligence. (With the important caveat that it's unclear whether an AI needed to be generally superintelligent in order to pose a major risk for society. It's conceivable that superintelligence in some more narrow domain, like cybersecurity, would be enough - particularly in a sufficiently networked society.)
...Do you think they could he deployed by basement hackers, or only
There have been a couple of brief discussions of this in the Open Thread, but it seems likely to generate more so here's a place for it.
The original paper in Nature about AlphaGo.
Google Asia Pacific blog, where results will be posted. DeepMind's YouTube channel, where the games are being live-streamed.
Discussion on Hacker News after AlphaGo's win of the first game.