Everybody knows the story of Superman. How a baby from another world is found and adopted by a humble farming couple who discover the boy possesses incredible powers. Mr and Mrs Kent bring their son, Clark, up with strong moral values and teach him that his duty is to help and protect humanity.
"But what about the opposite scenario?" asks Mo Gawdat, a former top executive at Google's artificial intelligence division. "Suppose the Kents had done things differently, and Superman had learned greed and self-interest. What would have stopped him from destroying the world?
"This is where we are with AI."
In a sense, all of us - the scientists who have created a new breed of hyper-intelligent machines, the governments and corporations that will deploy them, and everyone who will come to rely on them - are the new Kents. If we can safely steer artificial intelligence towards good purposes, it has the potential to vastly improve our lives. If not, it is terrifyingly capable of destroying us.
In May, a group of AI-pioneering researchers and executives issued a blunt warning that reducing the dangers of the new technology should become a global priority. A few weeks earlier Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a British scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI', said that he was retiring from the field and now regretted some of his achievements.
"It's hard to see," he said, "how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things."
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