1 A Less Radical AI Apocalypse Some Context: February 1975 Taped to the wall of the elevator to the MIT AI Lab: Special Meeting David Baltimore will discuss the temporary, total moratorium on research on recombinant DNA agreed upon at the Asilomar conference last week <time> <place> (For comparison to AI, see https://intelligence.org/files/TheAsilomarConference.pdf) CIS 421/ 521 - Intro to AI 2 “Yet an exclusive focus on AI and robotics in terms of “end of the world” and other doom scenarios … tend to distract from very real and far more urgent ethical and social issues raised by new technological developments in these areas.” • Is there still a place for privacy in the …world we are creating? • Does work become increasingly stressful due to information overload? • Do large and powerful corporations such as Google, Facebook, Apple, threaten democratic governance of technology? • Will further automatisation lead to fewer jobs? • Are new financial technologies a danger for the world economy? CIS 421/ 521 - Intro to AI 3 https://www.wired.com/2014/12/armageddon-is-not-the-ai-problem/ AI and jobs • According to a study by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford, almost 50 percent of jobs in the U.S. and U.K. are susceptible of automation. • Some people believe that this is no different than every other automation that we’ve seen: Jobs will be lost to machines, but other jobs will be created instead . • Others think that the automation of jobs will lead to increased productivity but decreased employability CIS 421/ 521 - Intro to AI 5 The New Luddites: What if technological innovation is a job-killer after all? • “Replacing manual labor with machines on farms and in factories was one thing, the worriers say…. But the 21 st century is witnessing the rise of far smarter machines that can perform tasks previously thought to be immune to automation. • Today’s software can answer your calls, organize your calendar, sell you shoes, recommend your next movie…. Tomorrow’s software will diagnose your diseases , write your news stories , and even drive your car . When even high-skill “knowledge workers” are at risk of being replaced by machines, what human jobs will be left?” http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/the_new_ luddites_what_if_automation_is_a_job_killer_after_all.html CIS 421/ 521 - Intro to AI 6
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A Less Radical AI Apocalypse
Some Context: February 1975
Taped to the wall of the elevator to the MIT AI Lab:
Special Meeting
David Baltimore will discuss
the temporary, total moratorium on
research on recombinant DNA
agreed upon at the Asilomar conference
last week
<time>
<place>
(For comparison to AI, see https://intelligence.org/files/TheAsilomarConference.pdf)
CIS 421/ 521 - Intro to AI 2
“Yet an exclusive focus on AI and robotics
in terms of “end of the world” and other
doom scenarios … tend to distract from
very real and far more urgent ethical
and social issues raised by new
technological developments in these
areas.”
• Is there still a place for privacy in the …world