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Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Containment
The past few years have seen a remarkable amount of attention on the long-term future of artificial intelligence (AI). Icons of science and technology such as Stephen Hawking (Cellan-Jones, 2014), Elon Musk (Musk, 2014), and Bill Gates (Gates, 2015) have expressed concern that superintelligent AI may wipe out humanity in the long run. Stuart Russell, coauthor of the most-cited textbook of AI (Russell & Norvig, 2003), recently began prolifically advocating (Dafoe & Russell, 2016) for the field of AI to take this possibility seriously. AI conferences now frequently have panels and workshops on the topic. There has been an outpouring of support from many leading AI researchers for an open letter calling for greatly increased research dedicated to ensuring that increasingly capable AI remains "robust and beneficial," and gradually a field of "AI safety" is coming into being (Pistono & Yampolskiy, 2016; Yampolskiy, 2016, 2018; Yampolskiy & Spellchecker, 2016). Why all this attention?
Authors: James Babcock · János Krámar · Roman V. Yampolskiy