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Will Humanity Be Rendered Obsolete by AI?

Mohamed El Louadi, Emna Ben Romdhane

TL;DR

This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence and addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien.

Abstract

This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence. Drawing on Irving J. Good and Nick Bostrom's theoretical work, plus recent publications (AI 2027; If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), it explores AGI and superintelligence. Considering machines' exponentially growing cognitive power and hypothetical IQs, it addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien. Human extinction may result not from malice, but from uncontrollable, indifferent cognitive superiority.

Will Humanity Be Rendered Obsolete by AI?

TL;DR

This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence and addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien.

Abstract

This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence. Drawing on Irving J. Good and Nick Bostrom's theoretical work, plus recent publications (AI 2027; If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), it explores AGI and superintelligence. Considering machines' exponentially growing cognitive power and hypothetical IQs, it addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien. Human extinction may result not from malice, but from uncontrollable, indifferent cognitive superiority.
Paper Structure (14 sections, 1 figure, 1 table)

This paper contains 14 sections, 1 figure, 1 table.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Intelligence Explosion: From Good to Bostrom
  3. When Will AGI Arrive?
  4. Why Continue Developing AGI?
  5. AI, A Peril for Humanity?
  6. The Human Limitation In Comprehending Exponentiality
  7. The Limitations Of AI
  8. Will AI Help Humans Be Smarter?
  9. How Will This Evolve, Possibly?
  10. Conclusion

Figures (1)

  • Figure 1: The Intelligence Explosion of Machines: The intelligence embedded in the machine envisioned by Irving J. Good would enable it to design newer, better, and thus smarter machines. Over time, the intelligence of these machines will rival that of humans and, at a certain point (the takeoff or fast takeoff), surpass and far exceed it. According to Good and Nick Bostrom, the first ultraintelligent machine will be the last invention humans will ever need to create.