Unintended Consequences
Several critics have argued that AI technology has the potential to disrupt existing society and introduce new dangers and malaise. Nick Bostrom, Teacher and Philosopher at Oxford University, published a paper "Existential Risks" In the Journal of Evolution and Technology. Mr. Bostrom stated that Artificial Intelligence has the capability to bring about human extinction, which is of course not what society intends for Artificial Intelligence to do.
Berglas (2008) notes that there is no direct evolutionary motivation for an AI to be friendly to humans. Further, the AI would have its own evolutionary pressures as it competes with other AIs for computer hardware upon which to run. It is difficult to see how humanity could survive in competition with a more intelligent machine.
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