Max Tegmark – the professor at MIT, a member of MDI’s AIWS Standards and Practice Committee who spoke at The BGF-G7 Summit of Boston Global Forum in April, 2018 – was invited to talk about AI in TED 2018.
As AI research has advanced at a fast pace, many researchers expect AI to eventually be able to outsmart humans at all tasks. Max Tegmark analyzed the opportunities and threats, and proposed measures that should be taken to ensure AI will be peaceable used to advance societal well-being.
He argued that AI researchers and thinkers should carefully discuss how to keep AI beneficial to humanity, and should consider negative outcomes like a possible AI arms race and lethal autonomous weapons. In addition to that, researchers should consider how to protect users from threat like hackers and software malware and malfunction.
In conclusion, if we steer the development of AI carefully, and keep it under control, AI holds great promise and great potential to enhance societal well-being.
