I hear visionaries like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk talk about the dangers of AI to human kind, and I brush it off as paranoia because I believe in human intelligence and wisdom. I believe that we the creators of AI will always be far more intelligent than AI at any given point in time because it is the collective intelligence of human kind and the inferences from this intelligence that goes into the AI. We are a wise and intelligent species and this intelligence will only grow using the AI.
But then I look at the news and I see things like a woman being hacked to death while a whole group of people watched on without interfering or helping after the fact; I hear about #Brexit, and maybe I will soon hear that a divisive-minded person like Donald Trump has become the POTUS.....I'm in no way equating all these news but all this makes me question the collective wisdom of humankind.
Are we really intelligent as a whole species? Or is the intelligence and wisdom just concentrated in small pockets of the society and the majority of people stupid, insensible, narrow-minded and short-sighted? Does the majority consist of people who don't realize that if you do not help another in distress, you will not receive help either; that being passive to evil will only encourage it further and some day you will bear its brunt too; that staying united is better than being divided? Has the majority lost its wisdom? If that is the case, then maybe AI singularity is a possibility and maybe AI would be a danger to the human species. But then wouldn't we deserve it too?
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