How to prevent creeping artificial intelligence becoming creepy

With successful AI emerging slowly and almost without us noticing, we must improve the understanding between human and computer

The traditional view of benevolent artificial intelligence (AI) is as a companion, someone who understands and enhances us. Think of the computer in Star Trek or JARVIS in Iron Man. They don’t just have a vast knowledge and extraordinary computational abilities, but they exhibit emotional intelligence and remain subservient to their human masters. This is the utopian view of AI.

The alternative dystopia has been expressed by Tony Stark’s real life counterpart , Elon Musk. What if such intelligence isn’t satisfied with such a back seat role? What if it becomes self aware and begins to use its knowledge and computational resources against us?

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