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CNN GPS. Fareed Zakaria interviews Eric Schmidt

What can and can’t AI do? Could humans lose control of it? What are the technology’s current limitations, and what are the scariest things about it? Part 1 of my conversation with @ericschmidt from today’s GPS special, “Artificial Intelligence: Its Promise … and Peril” (Audio)

Fareed: …what do you propose as a solution?

Schmidt” I am concerned about the extreme risk.  That is extreme or existential risk of these [AI systems].  I’m concerned that they have polymathic capabilities that will allow somebody, who does not have a PhD in biology and who is evil, to do something that can harm people. That’s my primary concern… I think primarily the initial threats are in biology and cyber… eventually we’re going to have a situation where these systems do what is called step-wise refinement. So basically – they can’t do this now – they can say here are the steps to build a recipe. Here are the steps to solve a problem. Here are the steps to build a bomb. At the point at which it can do steps, each step it’s doing a little bit of thinking, not our kind of thinking, but it’s own, to choose the next step. That’s the beginning of consciousness. At the point at which those steps are put together you’re going to have super-intelligence. There’s a scenario many people believe, where once you have one super-intelligence it can find the others, and in that scenario it can develop the ability to speak to itself in a language we can’t understand. That is uncharted territory in humanity, and we need to prevent that.” — Eric Schmidt

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