{"id":176236,"date":"2017-02-09T06:13:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk-endorse-new-ai-code-irish-times\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T06:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T11:13:31","slug":"stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk-endorse-new-ai-code-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/ai\/stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk-endorse-new-ai-code-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk endorse new AI code &#8211; Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    These 23 principles were agreed upon at the recent Beneficial    AI 2017 conference at the Future of Life Institute in Boston  <\/p>\n<p>    A list of 23 principles related to the ethics, research    strategies and long-term issues arising from developing    artificial intelligence technologies has been endorsed by    high-profile scientists and technologists including Stephen Hawking; Elon    Musk; Ray the Singularity Kurzweil; Demis Hassabis, founder and CEO of DeepMind;    and Prof Yann LeCun, director of AI research at Facebook.  <\/p>\n<p>    Curiously, actor and film-maker Joseph Gordon-Levit has also    signed this list  and actor-turned-science communicator    Alan Alda is on the    scientific advisory board.  <\/p>\n<p>    These 23 principles were agreed upon at the recent    Beneficial AI 2017 conference at the Future of    Life Institute in    Boston and state that the goal of AI research should be to    create beneficial intelligence rather than undirected    intelligence, adding that plans should be put in place in case    AI systems pose catastrophic or existential risks to human    life.  <\/p>\n<p>    There was also a stipulation that strict safety and control    measures are in place for self-improving and self-replicating    AI systems; nobody wants swarms of determined, superintelligent    nanobots deciding that planet Earths greatest threat (humans)    should be eradicated.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VPQ0QDZq2V\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/ai-principles\/\">AI-principles<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;AI-principles&#8221; &#8212; Future of Life Institute\" src=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/ai-principles\/embed\/#?secret=IgMjdxDAby#?secret=VPQ0QDZq2V\" data-secret=\"VPQ0QDZq2V\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/technology\/stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk-endorse-new-ai-code-1.2965910\" title=\"Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk endorse new AI code - Irish Times\">Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk endorse new AI code - Irish Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> These 23 principles were agreed upon at the recent Beneficial AI 2017 conference at the Future of Life Institute in Boston A list of 23 principles related to the ethics, research strategies and long-term issues arising from developing artificial intelligence technologies has been endorsed by high-profile scientists and technologists including Stephen Hawking; Elon Musk; Ray the Singularity Kurzweil; Demis Hassabis, founder and CEO of DeepMind; and Prof Yann LeCun, director of AI research at Facebook. Curiously, actor and film-maker Joseph Gordon-Levit has also signed this list and actor-turned-science communicator Alan Alda is on the scientific advisory board. 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