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Can We Keep Artificial Intelligence Under Control?
How We Can Not Only Manage the Risks of Artificial Intelligence But Reap the Benefits By Being Intelligent Humans
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a pace that raises a fundamental question: can we develop increasingly powerful technologies while retaining the ability to manage their consequences?
The potential benefits are considerable. AI could accelerate medical research, improve education, increase productivity and help us tackle problems that have long resisted human ingenuity. Yet the same technology could disrupt employment, concentrate economic and political power, amplify cyber threats and, in the longer term, create risks that are difficult to predict or control. The challenge is not simply to make AI more capable. It is to ensure that our institutions, safeguards and collective judgement develop alongside it.
‘How can we shape AI around human needs, values and long-term interests, rather than simply adapting society to whatever the technology makes possible?’
In the first article in this two-part series, Escaping the Sandbox: From Everyday Disruption to the Risk of Losing Control of AI, I…
