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Mankind had better pay attention to the massive and sudden growth of AI (Artificial Intelligence). 

Check out this disturbing article from BUSINESS INSIDER on this subject (formatted to fit the blog):

“An AI weapons race may create a world where everyone stays inside out of fear of being chased down by swarms of slaughterbots, warns founding Skype engineer”

Short introduction to this rather long but interesting article:

·  Jaan Tallinn helped build Skype and is the founder of the Future of Life Institute.

·  He recently warned of the risks of an AI arms race, describing theoretical anonymous “slaughterbots.”

·  This year hundreds in the AI space signed an open letter calling for a pause on AI development.

Those words of warning came from Tallinn, a founding engineer of Skype, in a recent video interview with Al Jazeera that letter in part saying: “We might just be creating a world where it's no longer safe to be outside because you might be chased down by swarms of slaughterbots.”

Tallinn is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and a founder of the Cambridge Centre for the “Study of Existential Risk” and “The Future of Life Institute,” two organizations dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks, particularly risk brought about from the development of advanced AI technologies.

Tallinn's reference to killer robots draws from the 2017 short film: Slaughterbots, which was released by the Future of Life Institute as part of a campaign warning about the dangers of weaponized artificial intelligence. 

The film depicts a dystopian future in which the world has been overtaken by militarized killer drones powered by AI.

We could be reaching an “Oppenheimer moment” that is in other words as researchers question their responsibility for developing technology that might have unintended consequences just like the first A-bomb had.

Tesla’s Elon Musk; Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak; Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque; researchers at Alphabet's AI lab DeepMind; and notable AI professors signed an open letter issued by the “Future of Life Institute” calling for a six-month pause on advanced AI development saying part: “Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one — not even their creators — can understand, predict, or reliably control.”

Side reference on this same subject here from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

My 2 Cents: I've posted about this AI topic for a awhile now at these four sites with various kinds of information: here; here; here; and here FYI.

This is a hot topic not apt to go away anytime soon.

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