Artificial intelligence (AI) offers many benefits, but also some potential dangers. And now researchers have proposed a way to keep tabs on their computer creations.
How will AI change the world?
An international team says in a new paper that AI can determine which types of research projects need more regulation than others. The scientists used a model that combines concepts from biology and mathematics and is part of a growing effort to discover what kinds of AI might be dangerous.
“Of course, while the ‘sci-fi’ dangerous uses of AI may arise if we decide to do so […], it is not AI itself that makes AI dangerous, but [how we use it],” Thierry Rayna, the chair of Technology for Change at France’s École Polytechnique, told Lifewire in an email interview. “Implementing AI can be either capability-enhancing (i.e., it strengthens the relevance of people’s/employees’ skills and knowledge) or capability-destroying, i.e., AI makes existing skills and knowledge less useful or obsolete.”
The authors of the recent paper wrote in a post that they built a model to simulate hypothetical AI competitions. They ran the simulation hundreds of times to try to predict how real AI races might play out.
