What is your convincing dream scenario for AI – a breakthrough that might fundamentally improve life at a worldwide level?
I would like AI to resolve a few of the problems where people have failed. I would like the cooperation between people and never human flower to a way forward for human and non -human blooming to assist us hand over our financial system to life that serves life to enhance our collective decision -making and coordination in order that we’ve each with the planets and the probabilities we’ve that we’ve that we’ve.
What is a current project or a breakthrough that you simply are particularly happy with – and what sort of effects, what effects it’s going to have in the actual world?
We recently began global dialogues on the Paris AI summit. These are global public conversations that can happen in over 70 countries in two months in regards to the current and way forward for the AI. These are ai relief of conversations, which suggests that we are able to gain knowledge in real time. If we’re capable of coordinate public conversations in scale and speed, we construct the socio-technical infrastructure for coordination as a form. This is the cooperation between people and AI of one of the best.
What is an application for AI that you simply consider that more people should know – something positive that flies under the radar?
AI for communication in regards to the difference is probably the most exciting things in my horizon. Regardless of whether that is suitable for conflict resolution and peace finding or communication between the species, the power to bridge the difference is incredible.
If you’ve got to decide on a nightmare scenario that keeps you awake at night – whether realistic or speculative – what wouldn’t it be and which warning signs should we have a look at today?
Ai fueled the fragmentation of our society -into the vacuum rooms of the “truth”, the polarized AI religions and the weakened institutions which might be fully sacrificed to the AI ​​corpocracy by AI, in order that we are able to not act in coordinated social structures and the issues of our time (climate crisis & was & was).
Who or what do you’re thinking that has the strength to stop your nightmare scenario above?
Collective intelligence
What are we not talking about within the AI ​​discussion today – something that you simply consider that it could possibly be very essential in five years?
The effects and the potential AI should be completely imploded or transformed for the higher, our financial system.
If you look ahead for 10 years, what do you’re thinking that will probably be the most important change in our day by day life?
I feel in ten years the way in which we communicate and coordinate will probably be very different. Our human human relationships are enormously influenced by our human relationships. We already see the beginnings of this in progress. The digital gap can have greater consequences than ever. I don't know whether the direction will probably be positive or not, but it’s going to come.
Do you’re thinking that agi is close? When will we’ve AGI?
I feel this conversation corresponds to the seek for consciousness in some ways. We make the error to think that there’s a clear threshold that determines the presence of those cognitive phenomena. When we reach this threshold, we move the goal post. We want determined moments – “that is when consciousness appears” or “that is after we reach AGI” – but reality can only step by step offer transitions along multi -dimensional spectra. These resemble more landscapes than targets. I feel that the conversation “Have We Agi” represents a distraction from the more acute -relevant questions, e.g. How will we be certain that we’re qualified to live well next to you? How can we as a species collection be so equipped that we work with machine intelligence in a positive, life -affirmative way as a substitute of fighting with you?
Zarinah Agnew, research director, Collective Intelligence Project (CIP)
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