AI computers will be our ‘teammates’ not weapons

Intelligent computers should be considered our teammates rather than a threat to the human race, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) experts has claimed, ahead of his appearance at UCC next weekend.

“After decades of pundits and philosophers arguing that artificial intelligence is provably impossible, suddenly that argument has been replaced with the assertion that not only is it possible but that superhuman artificial intelligence is so inevitable that it is the greatest danger ever faced by the human race.

“In only about a decade, the conversation has shifted from ‘you can’t do it’ to ‘you shouldn’t do it’,” said Ken Ford, director and chief executive of the Florida-based Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.