The word “risk” connotes a small chance of something bad suddenly happening, but slow steady progress towards losing the future is just as worrisome.
This has me thinking: which organisations have the biggest vested interests in slowing progress towards machine intelligence in the English-speaking world?
I figure it has got to be the American and Chinese governments.
The NSA did manage to delay the commercial adoption of cryptography a little—by identifying it as a “weapon”. We may see the same kind of strategy used with machine intelligence. We are certainly seeing intelligent machines being identified as weapons—though the source doesn’t appear to be the government—though probably nobody would believe such propaganda if they thought it came from the government.
This has me thinking: which organisations have the biggest vested interests in slowing progress towards machine intelligence in the English-speaking world?
I figure it has got to be the American and Chinese governments.
The NSA did manage to delay the commercial adoption of cryptography a little—by identifying it as a “weapon”. We may see the same kind of strategy used with machine intelligence. We are certainly seeing intelligent machines being identified as weapons—though the source doesn’t appear to be the government—though probably nobody would believe such propaganda if they thought it came from the government.