A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new
approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with
increasingly intelligent machines In the popular imagination,
superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave
that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but
civilization itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen
as inevitable and its outcome all too predictable. In this
groundbreaking book, distinguished AI researcher Stuart Russell
argues that this scenario can be avoided, but only if we rethink AI
from the ground up. Russell begins by exploring the idea of
intelligence in humans and in machines. He describes the near-term
benefits we can expect, from intelligent personal assistants to
vastly accelerated scientific research, and outlines the AI
breakthroughs that still have to happen before we reach superhuman
AI. He also spells out the ways humans are already finding to
misuse AI, from lethal autonomous weapons to viral sabotage. If the
predicted breakthroughs occur and superhuman AI emerges, we will
have created entities far more powerful than ourselves. How can we
ensure they never, ever, have power over us? Russell suggests that
we can rebuild AI on a new foundation, according to which machines
are designed to be inherently uncertain about the human preferences
they are required to satisfy. Such machines would be humble,
altruistic, and committed to pursue our objectives, not theirs.
This new foundation would allow us to create machines that are
provably deferential and provably beneficial.
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