The answer to how we can prepare the machines for this ethically complex world resides in the way we raise our own children and prepare them to face our complex world’ Mo Gawdat]: History says that since the very ancient times, some of the dreams of the Pharaohs or the ancient Chinese civilisations was to create something that mimics humans, from automatons to Mechanical Turks, to even the clay soldiers of the Chinese armies or the big guards of the pharaonic era…. At the same time, encourage AI that is good for humanity. Use it more. Talk about it. Share it with others and make it clear that you welcome these forms of AI into your life. Encourage the use of self-driving cars, they make humans safer. Use translation and communication tools, they bring us closer together. Post about every positive, friendly, healthy use of AI you find, to make others aware of it. I’m not sure where the positivity spoken of is - Gawdat’s answer is again, like so much current tosh: be stoic and mindful in the face of the unrelenting tsunami of social media, online advertising and coercion activity, and In doing this we will teach AI to be nice (?!?!?!) Mo Gawdat]: The truth of the matter is that the reason why AI is going to continue is not a technology issue. The reason why AI is going to continue is a very simple prisoner’s dilemma that is created by capitalism. The fact is, there are hundreds of thousands of two little kids in a garage today playing with AI tools. Just like I played with C++ when I was younger. You know, the very basics at the very beginning of Sinclairs and Commodores and so on.

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Interesting framework on what he calls “the inevitables” and how to prepare for future super intelligence. Let’s face it, AI will not be made to think like the average human. It will be made to think like economists, sales executives, soldiers, politicians and corporations. And like those highly driven subsets of humanity, AI stands the risk of being as biased and blinded by what it measures. You see, it’s not that we can only measure what we see, but rather that we zoom in with tunnel vision and only see what we measure. That reinforces what we see and then we create more of it as a result. And yes, sadly, we are not designing AI to think like a human, we are designing it to think like a man. The male-dominated pool of developers who are building the future of AI today are likely to create machines that favour so-called ‘masculine’ traits. First, I slightly don’t agree that our ethics or moral framework was only based on our supremacy. I think that’s, if you don’t mind me saying, with a lot of respect to a Western approach to morality. The ancient approach to morality was much more based on inclusion. It was much more based on the only way for us to survive is to survive as a tribe. And the fact that I dislike my brother a little bit does not contradict the fact that me and my brother are better at fighting the tiger than yellow? When machines are specifically built to discriminate, rank and categorize, how do we expect to teach them to value equality?'

I do not know if it’s because he’s a slave to the conversational style he used to create this (narrating rather than writing the book) which changes the feel utterly, and it does have shades of reading a transcript at times. And so, there is a lot of inclusion in our core ethical and moral framework. I have to say, though, as we move forward, the question of ethics becomes mind boggling. I failed very early in the chapter to find any answers at all. I humbled myself and turned it into a chapter of questions. When you start to understand, again the main premise is that AI is not a tool, it’s not a machine. If I take a hammer and I smash this computer in front of me, it would be stupid and wasteful. But there is nothing wrong here. But if that computer has been spending the last 10 years of its life developing memories and knowledge and unique intelligence, and able to communicate to other machines and in every possible way, it had agency and freedom of action and free will, and it basically is a crime when you think about it. Now you’re dealing with a sentient being that is autonomous in every possible way. And when you start to think about life that way, you start to go like, okay so how do we achieve equality if we failed to achieve equality across gender and colour and sex and so on, in our limited human abilities so far? Can we even accept a being that is non-biological, a digital form of sentient being into our lives? And if we accept them, how do we unify things? Who is to blame if a self-driving car kills somebody? Because if it’s a sentient being, maybe we should hold it accountable. But what if we hold it accountable? Who do we put in jail, the car? for what, 4-5 years? And if you put one car in jail for five years you flimsy, worthless creature, what will the other cars do? And when you really start to think about it, would they agree to that code of conduct if five years for you and I is 12 percent of our life expectancy, but for an AI, it is a blip really, because their life expectancy is endless, but at the same time, they measure life in microseconds. So, it would feel like five hundred thousand years. I honestly can’t tell you if this is because Mr. Gawdat is trying to simplify immensely complex topics and get down to the crux of the problem for every type of reader. By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans, and in this interview I speak to Mo Gawdat about what artificial intelligence means for our species, and why we need to act now to ensure a future that preserves humanity. Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – Mo Gawdat Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong? The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years’ experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works. By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself. Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat – eBook Details

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Internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy and former chief business officer at Google [X], Mo Gawdat has spent more than three decades at the forefront of technological development. His latest book, Scary Smartprovides an ominous warning about artificial intelligence.Or, it could be that this text was actually written (developed? Spawned?) by an AI bot which is why it was so sparsely referenced, simply circular and most annoyingly… If we all refuse to buy the next version of the iPhone, because we really don’t need a fancier look or an even better camera at the expense of our environment, Apple will understand that they need to create something that we actually need. If we insist that we will not buy a new phone until it delivers a real benefit, like helping us make our life more sustainable or improving our digital health, that will be the product that is created next. Similarly, if we make it clear that we welcome AI into our lives only when it delivers benefit to ourselves and to our planet, and reject it when it doesn’t, AI developers will try to capture that opportunity. Keep doing this consistently and the needle will shift. The reality is, as I keep saying, there is that problem of irrelevance that we might not be that relevant to that higher power now. When you really think about it, they may choose to connect to the Great Ape, because it’s a much better physical specimen than we are. And the difference between our intelligence and them is irrelevant in comparison to the difference between our intelligence and super-intelligence. So, if we’re 100% more smart than the Great Ape, we’re still 1%of the intelligence of the machines. So, what difference does it make anyway? Mo Gawdat]: From one side, we could expect that this [ artificial intelligence] could be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity and that humanity will be reduced into irrelevance. and become completely irrelevant, like the apes are almost irrelevant for the destination or the destiny of the planet. Because artificial intelligence is bound to become comparable in its intelligence to our intelligence compared to the apes.

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Another 200,000 reasons why no developer of AI today actually uses any of the scenarios that are well-documented to solve the control problem. Nobody tripwires their own machine. Nobody simulates, nobody boxes. Nobody does any of those technical solutions.

AI is already more capable and intelligent than humanity. Today's self-driving cars are better than the average human driver and fifty per cent of jobs in the US are expected to be taken by AI-automated machines before the end of the century. In this urgent piece, Mo argues that if we don’t take action now – in the infancy of AI development – it may become too powerful to control. If our behaviour towards technology remains unchanged, AI could disregard human morals in favour of profits and efficiency, with alarming and far-reaching consequences. I could imagine the AI bot literally dredged up the fist half of the book’s section from a ‘doom and gloom of AI’ search and then the other half from ‘positive online mentality’ one. Then a chapter on love which you could have put in or taken from ANY self-development book of the last 20 years. uses ellipsis and mid line placement to stress what it thinks are important points, like an 8 year old’s creative writing. Mo Gawdat on the unstoppable growth of artificial intelligence, and what we can do to change the terrifying future of an AI-dominated world Very few of the stories that we read about forms of intelligence that are artificial if you like, forms of robots have always had that dark side to them. And yet we continue to be fascinated about them and we continue to try and create them. I always refer to War of the Worlds, if you remember how famous that story is and in it, I think it starts with who would have believed that at the turn of the 20th century, that a being far more intelligent than us is coming to planet Earth. Interestingly, when you read that story, you think that it is an intelligence that’s coming from outer space, but it would apply equally if it was any intelligence that was created right here.

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So, you go across the Atlantic and the moral makeup is patriotism and it’s ok to kill the other guy. You go in Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama and the Buddhists would live, and they go, like, ‘don’t kill a fly’, right? We haven’t agreed… We haven’t managed to agree. And I think my book is centred around this. And you know that because always the very last statement of any one of my books is basically the summary of the message and the summary of scary smart is, isn’t it ironic that the core of what makes us human – love, compassion and happiness, is what could save us in the age of the rise of the machines? And I think if we were to be realistic, the only ethics humanity has ever agreed was that we all want to be happy.Clifford, Catherine (24 August 2018). "This former Google X exec reverse engineered happiness — here's what he found". NBC News. Mo Gawdat]: Humanity has the arrogance to believe that our intelligence is the only form of intelligence. Of course, we’re arrogant enough to believe that we are the most intelligent being on the planet. When I started to write about artificial intelligence in Scary Smart, the first step I took was to try and define intelligence like an engineer would. And the definitions were very varied across so many views and philosophical views and the scientific views and so on. We don’t really know what intelligence is. We know how intelligence manifests in our lives. And it manifests basically in an ability to comprehend complex concepts and to solve problems, and to maybe plan for unforeseeable assumptions in the future. Is that the limit of intelligence? I believe that there are other forms of intelligence that deliver other results or other magnificent creations, but they are just a bit too far for our intelligence to comprehend them.