First do no harm.
“It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.” — Stuart Russell
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” — Actual AI output. Published 13 November 2024 at 03:32
“These things really do understand.” — Nobel laureate, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” at University of Oxford, Romanes Lecture
Editors’ humble opinion based on AI technology thought leaders over the past 80 years… we are all now in extremely deep trouble. ANALYZE THE DATA.
We believe Von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Good, Clarke, Hawking, Musk, Bostrom, Tegmark, Russell, Bengio, Hinton, and thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Learn more: The Containment Problem and The AI Safety Problem
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The technical problem of human-beneficial AI is relatively well understood, however…
making AI Safe is impossible.
The technical solutions are currently unknown to making Safe AI.
Containment and control of AI is the requirement, forever.
Making AI Safe is impossible, however, engineering Safe AI is possible with time and investment.
We need mathematically provable guarantees of Safe AI.
What?
About X-risk: The Elders
International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (IASEAI)
Scientific Consensus:
Mathematically provable Safe AI is a requirement.
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Good, I. J. (1966). Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine. Advances in Computers
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Good, I. J. (1966). Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine. Advances in Computers Volume 6, 31–88.doi:10.1016/s0065-2458(08)60418-0 "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual [...]
NORBERT WEINER. 1960. Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation. As machines learn they may develop unforeseen strategies at rates that baffle their programmers.
Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation. Norbert Wiener (1960) As machines learn they may develop unforeseen strategies at rates that baffle their programmers. Man and Slave. The problem, and it is a moral problem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great [...]
ALBERT EINSTEIN. Spukhafte Fernwirkungen (“spooky actions at a distance”) 1947. Albert Einstein IQ was estimated at approximately 160. The IQ of GPT-4 is currently (2023) estimated at approximately 150.
ALBERT EINSTEIN. Spukhafte Fernwirkungen (“spooky actions at a distance”). 1947 on Quantum Mechanics... Albert Einstein IQ was estimated at approximately 160. The IQ of GPT-4 is currently (2023) estimated at approximately 150. “I cannot seriously believe in it [Quantum Mechanics] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that [...]
HISTORY. The Hewlett-Packard Garage (1939). The “Birthplace of ‘Silicon Valley'”
HISTORY. The Hewlett-Packard Garage (1939). The "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley'" - Wikipedia The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP [now HP and HPE] was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and [...]
THE LOST GENERATION (100 years ago). FITZGERALD: The rich are different from us. HEMMINGWAY: Yes, they have more money. Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris, 1925.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FITZGERALD: The rich are different from us. HEMMINGWAY: Yes, they have more money. Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris (1925) famously known as "The Lost Generation" were leading members of a group of [...]
Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).
Charles Darwin. (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882). Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a [...]
Pascal’s wager (1669)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Pascal's wager The indifference of the skeptic, Pascal wrote, is to be overcome by means of the “wager”: if God does not exist, the skeptic loses nothing by believing in him; but [...]
Cogito, ergo sum. (“I think, therefore I am.) René Descartes. Discourse on Method (1637)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Cogito, ergo sum. (“I think, therefore I am.) René Descartes. Discourse on Method (1637) Cogito, ergo sum, (Latin: “I think, therefore I am) dictum coined by the French mathematician and philosopher René [...]
Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince (Il Principe). 1513.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince (Il Principe). 1513. Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various [...]
HISTORY. Generative AI (2023). The most important technology since Gutenberg’s Printing Press (1436). Gutenberg Died Penniless. 3 February 1468.
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Johannes Gutenberg – Wikipedia Described as the “man of the millennium”, Gutenberg is often cited as among the most influential figures in human history. Gutenberg died penniless on 3 February 1468. “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and [...]
GREEK MYTH. PROMETHEUS defied the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and more generally, civilization.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Mary Shelley subtitled to her novel Frankenstein (1818) The Modern Prometheus. Prometheus - Wikipedia In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/prəˈmiːθiəs/; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought")[1] is a Titan god of fire.[2] Prometheus [...]