The artificial intelligence of modern machines, meaning the ability for computer programmes to mimic the conceptual reasoning of the human brain, either as software or through a physical machine, is improving year on year. In September of this year, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence showed that an AI could get 90% on a 12th grade science test. As recently as 2016 the Institute found that no machine could get more than 60%. There is every reason to think this rate of progression will continue, and with it, the kinds of questions long relegated to science fiction will become the pressing issues of the day.
Nations are walking blindly into the adoption of AI. In the United States, the government has no major department investigating or regulating the technology, with the White House’s AI task force narrowly concerned with the use of AI for economic, military and security benefits. In China, the government has supercharged investment in the technology and has begun a pilot programme in schools to prepare Chinese children for work with AI. What’s missing from that curriculum? Any discussion of ethics or risks.
While debates around what it is to be human have filled the cloistered walls of universities for centuries, now governments must ...
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