A Contrarian Viewpoint of AI Risk

Here’s a great articlecontradicting the recent spate of doomsday prognosticationsurrounding the risks posed by AI. It also serves as a good AI history primer.

I’m not sure where I stand on this, but I think it’s closer to Geist than Bostrom. I do think we should be consideringhow to develop safe AI, but I think the existential God-like threat is long a ways off. It’s one thing to get a computer program to master pong without any data, it’s a much different thing to get it to cure cancer befor...