Open AccessWill There Be Superintelligence and Would It Hate Us?
Author(s) -
Wilks Yorick
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v38i4.2726
Subject(s) - harm , epistemology , data science , computer science , internet privacy , sociology , political science , engineering ethics , engineering , philosophy , law
This article examines Nick Bostrom's notion of superintelligence and argues that, although we should not be sanguine about the future of AI or its potential for harm, superintelligent AI is highly unlikely to come about in the way Bostrom imagines.