Dealing with Artificial Intelligence Nightmares.
A new word is creeping into articles about artificial intelligence with increasing frequency. The word is ‘terrified’.
A recent article outlines how the fear of the implications of new AI systems has become as important an issue among scientists as has the fear of global warming.
It was in 2023 that articles started in the popular press over the dangers of machine learning. The New York Times described the case of Geoffrey Hinton, an internationally respected pioneer of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Hinton had resigned from his post at Google to draw attention to the issue ...
