AI

I was listening to a guy yesterday who is a computer engineer.  He has been involved for 15 years in AI safety.  That is, the making of the system safe for human use and attempting to avoid dire consequences.  I was trying to figure where I had seen the guy interviewing him, and then it occurred to me, he was one of the potential investors on Dragons Den.
The computer scientist had concluded he was fighting a losing battle.  Change in AI is happening so fast that he cannot keep up with it.  Besides no sooner is a patch in place for a potential problem, then a work around is implemented.
I love AI.  I took notes and asked AI to write an essay based on the notes.  It was brilliant.  Merril read it and gave it an A+.  In many ways I think we are in the golden age of AI.
Yet I cannot help think there is a race to the bottom happening.  There are those who want to control how we think and people and countries all over the world are developing AI to that end.  That would never be stated but our record is not good and it the wrong hands that could be catastrophic.
It is not the narrow or general AI that presents the greatest problem (playing chess or combining what is known to cause something to build a case far greater than any one individual knows) but Superintelligence.
Superintelligence is where computers take all that is known and make decisions themselves.  It is a system where computers override human intervention and are beyond human control.  By its nature it is brighter than the human supposedly controlling it and makes decisions based on its knowledge rather than individual human, moral decisions.
We are already at the point where we cannot visually tell the real from the false.  The scientist was asked to predict what the world would look like in 2100.  He could not.  He sited scientists 100 years ago.  They had not way of knowing or predicting the world would be on our phones.  He could only see two scenario’s.  One was mankind had wiped himself out, or two, something inconceivable at this point.
That is the implications of where we are going with AI.  It has been said it is greater than the Industrial Revolution.  The interviewer said when he has such conversations he sees hope go out of eyes.
For me exactly the opposite happens.  All this has been predicted and the more I hear the more convinced I am that who I adhere to, knows the past and the future.