Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.Ĭontemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. He is the Author of "OUR TRIBAL FUTURE: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good." In his spare time, Samson is a practitioner of a medieval martial art in the Society of Creative Anachronism.AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. Samson’s research has been internationally profiled in venues such as BBC, Time, the New York Times, The Smithsonian, CBC, NPR, and National Geographic. An interdisciplinary scholar investigating major behavioral and physiological transitions in human evolution, he has worked with a range of primate species and studied sleep in different types of human societies. SAMSON is an associate professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the Author of "OUR TRIBAL FUTURE: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good." In his spare time, Samson is a practitioner of a medieval martial art in the Society of Creative Anachronism.
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