Are You Afraid of AI ?

Recently, a lot of celebrities from various aspects begin to discuss AI (Artificial Intelligence). Experts all seem to consider AI as a threat to human race. There is one article that everyone should read, http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html.

 I, myself don’t have stance on whether AI is going to be good or bad for people. I have watched too many scientific fictions and movies that AI seems to be too fake to me.  Although most of the intelligent people believe that AI will appear in our life in the next thirty years, I tend to believe that they will not show up at all. I don’t really have evidences to support my perspective, I just truly hope that such unnatural invention will not show up in the world forever for good.  

painted by: euticphicl

AI is always the central topic of Peron of Interest. The writers created a world that a civilian surveillance machine is already watching people at everywhere. And this machine not only watch human, but also learn from human race. The machine has free will, so it actually is an Artificial Super Intelligence. But, In POI the machine is not a role that people be afraid of, because the person (Harold Finch) who designed the machine has the most correct moral code in the world. He designed this machine to detect acts of terror, and the machine only provides limited information and does not threaten the human being. On the contrary, Samaritan, the opponent of the machine, does anything to achieve its own purpose. Worst of all, Samaritan had a huge anti-human supporters to enforce its orders.

Using the word from of the article that I said everyone should read, if an AI is born in the world, it will develop in exponential increase. Once an Artificial Super Intelligence shows up in the real world, it will as powerful as a god and human being can never stop it from achieving its own code.

So, how can we prevent the creation of an anti-human superpower?

copy from:MotherJones

POI seems to give us some answers of this question. The scenarios of the old days all are apocalyptic and impressed in this show, when Harold Finch was still programming the machine. Finch taught the machine to care people and to be moral, and he actually did a great job on them. In the Season 4, when two AIs start to kill each other, the difference between a moral AI and an AI is clear to the audience. Although Harold still does not trust his own machine because he cares people too much that he is not willing to kill one politician even his team (in a sense they are also his friends or families) may get killed because of that jerk politician.

In conclusion, POI teaches us the ways to stop any AI from destroying human civilization :

1.       A.  We have to teach machines morality;

2.       B.   Multiply interests group have to program AI together, otherwise one group may design programs that only benefit itself then violets the rights’ of the majority;

3.      C.   Be prepared for this accelerated electronic world !