{"id":587,"date":"2016-09-20T22:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2016-09-20T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:40:27","slug":"google-doesnt-want-to-accidentally-make-skynet-so-its-creating-an-ai-off-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Google Doesn&#8217;t Want to Accidentally Make Skynet, So It&#8217;s Creating an AI Off Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are two unmistakable sides to the debate concerning the future of artificial intelligence. In the \u201cboom\u201d corner are companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft aggressively investing in technology to make AI systems smarter and smarter. And in the \u201cdoom\u201d corner are prominent thinkers like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking who\u2019ve said that AI is like \u201csummoning the demon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/google-doesnt-want-to-accidentally-make-skynet-so-its-1780317950\">Google Doesn&#8217;t Want to Accidentally Make Skynet, So It&#8217;s Creating an AI Off Switch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/intelligence.org\/files\/Interruptibility.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two unmistakable sides to the debate concerning the future of artificial intelligence. In the \u201cboom\u201d corner are companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft aggressively investing in technology to make AI systems smarter and smarter. And in the \u201cdoom\u201d corner are prominent thinkers like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking who\u2019ve said that AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-risks","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}