How Does Artificial Intelligence Pose an Existential Risk?
Karina Vold, Daniel R. Harris
Abstract
Abstract Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computing, warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could one day pose an existential risk to humanity. Today, recent advancements in the field of AI have been accompanied by a renewed set of existential warnings. But what exactly constitutes an existential risk? And how exactly does AI pose such a threat? In this chapter, we aim to answer these questions. In particular, we will critically explore three commonly cited reasons for thinking that AI poses an existential threat to humanity: the control problem, the possibility of global disruption from an AI race dynamic, and the weaponization of AI.
Topics & Concepts
ExistentialismHumanityTuringArtificial intelligencePsychologyCognitive scienceComputer scienceEpistemologyPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawProgramming languageSpace Science and Extraterrestrial LifeInnovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine SystemsNeuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations