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Bad Hombres

The Threat of Artificial General Intelligence

Types of A.I.

• Narrow AI
  • Machine Learning algorithms and driverless cars
• AGI
• Superintelligence

The Threat of Superintelligence

• Intelligence Explosion
  • Recursive self-improvement
  • Artificial vs. Natural Selection
• Humanity and Ants

 "...the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." - I.J. Good

Inevitablity

• Progress
  • Capitalism
  • Even the "Dark Ages" weren't that dark
• Game Theory
  • AGI is zero-sum
• Proven possible

Solutions

• Don't develop it
  • Good luck with that
• Try to control it
  • Asimov's Three Laws
• Merge with it
  • Elon Musk's Neural Interface
• Bury your head in the sand

Timing

• The Law of Accelerating returns.
• Could happen tomorrow, or it could happen in 50 years. No body knows.