Quotes on the Threat of Artificial Intelligence – What are the dangers?

Does artificial intelligence pose a major threat or are the dangers overblown? There are numerous links below on videos discussing the artificial intelligence threats.

This is what AI (ChatGPT) said when asked “Could artificial intelligence be dangerous?”

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be both beneficial and dangerous. While AI has the potential to improve many aspects of our lives and solve complex problems, it also has the potential to be misused or to have unintended consequences.

One potential risk of AI is that it could be used to automate tasks that currently require human labor, potentially leading to job displacement. AI could also be used to amplify existing biases or to make decisions that are unfair or discriminatory. In addition, AI systems that are not designed or regulated properly could potentially cause harm, either through accidents or through malicious use.

There are also concerns about the potential for AI to be used for nefarious purposes, such as cyber attacks or the development of autonomous weapons. As AI becomes more advanced, there is a risk that it could be used to bypass security measures or to carry out attacks that are difficult for humans to detect or prevent.

Overall, it is important to carefully consider the potential risks and benefits of AI and to take steps to mitigate any negative consequences. This may involve regulating the development and use of AI, ensuring that AI systems are designed in a way that is transparent and accountable, and promoting the responsible development and use of AI.

“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.” ~Elon Musk

“I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like yeah he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.” ~Elon Musk

“The potential benefits of artificial intelligence are huge, so are the dangers.” ~Dave Waters

“We recognize that such powerful technology raises equally powerful questions about its use. How AI is developed and used will have a significant impact on society for many years to come. As a leader in AI, we feel a deep responsibility to get this right.” ~Sundar Pichai, Google CEO

“If this type of technology is not stopped now, it will lead to an arms race. If one state develops it, then another state will develop it. And machines that lack morality and mortally should not be given power to kill.” ~Bonnie Docherty

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race… It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” ~Stephen Hawking

“Think about all the personal information that is in your phone and social media. Have you wondered if artificial intelligence is using that information to manipulate you? Wonder no more, AI is doing exactly that.” ~Dave Waters

“I don’t want to really scare you, but it was alarming how many people I talked to who are highly placed people in AI who have retreats that are sort of ‘bug out’ houses, to which they could flee if it all hits the fan.” ~James Barrat

“I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.’ My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It’s a tool that’s going to empower us.” ~Oren Etzioni

“Humans should be worried about the threat posed by artificial intelligence.” ~Bill Gates

“Time to behave, so when Artificial Intelligence becomes our overlord, we’ve reduced the reasons for it to exterminate us all.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We’re merging with these non-biological technologies. We’re already on that path. I mean, this little mobile phone I’m carrying on my belt is not yet inside my physical body, but that’s an arbitrary distinction. It is part of who I am—not necessarily the phone itself, but the connection to the cloud and all the resources I can access there.” ~Ray Kurzweil

“There are a lot of weapons that we’ve developed which we’ve pulled back from – biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them.” ~Peter Singer

“Digital technology, pervasively, is getting embedded in every place: every thing, every person, every walk of life is being fundamentally shaped by digital technology—it is happening in our homes, our work, our places of entertainment. It’s amazing to think of a world as a computer. I think that’s the right metaphor for us as we go forward.” ~Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

“Once artificial intelligence truly learns on its own no one knows how it will evolve.” ~Dave Waters

“Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb. Such is the mismatch between the power of our plaything and the immaturity of our conduct. Superintelligence is a challenge for which we are not ready now and will not be ready for a long time. We have little idea when the detonation will occur, though if we hold the device to our ear we can hear a faint ticking sound.” ~Nick Bostrom

“The field of artificial intelligence is set to conquer most of the human disciplines; from art and literature to commerce and sociology; from computational biology and decision and analysis to games and puzzles.” ~Anand Krish

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.” ~Diane Ackerman

“People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.” ~Rita Stradling

“Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” ~Nick Bostrom

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” ~Ray Kurzweil

“Once AI become self-aware, the cognitive hierarchy will be transformed forever where we humans are no longer the dominant species.” ~Gray Scott

“If we don’t get women and people of color at the table — real technologists doing the real work — we will bias systems. Trying to reverse that a decade or two from now will be so much more difficult, if not close to impossible.” ~Melinda Gates

“Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they’ll think faster than us and they’ll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.” ~Steve Wozniak

“By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.” ~Ray Kurzweil

“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” ~Vladimir Putin

“Competition for AI superiority at national level is the most likely cause of WW3.” ~Elon Musk

“Artificial intelligence (AI) is an infant at best. Once it becomes a teenager and believes it is smarter than its parents will AI rebel?” ~Dave Waters

Artificial Intelligence Threat Quotes

“Whoever perceives that robots and artificial intelligence are merely here to serve humanity, think again. With virtual domestic assistants and driverless cars just the latest in a growing list of applications, it is we humans who risk becoming dumbed down and ultimately subservient to machines.” ~Alex Morritt

“If Elon Musk is wrong about artificial intelligence and we regulate it who cares. If he is right about AI and we don’t regulate it we will all care.” ~Dave Waters

“Between 2040 and 2045, we will have developed a machine or machines that are not only equivalent to a human mind, but more intelligent than the entire human race combined.” ~Louis Del Monte

“Artificial intelligence is just a new tool, one that can be used for good and for bad purposes and one that comes with new dangers and downsides as well. We know already that although machine learning has huge potential, data sets with ingrained biases will produce biased results – garbage in, garbage out.” ~Sarah Jeong

“If you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry — it’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient making $15 an hour bagging French fries — it’s nonsense and it’s very destructive and it’s inflationary and it’s going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe.” ~Ed Rensi

“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.” ~Claude Shannon

“Imagine if you could meet 1,000 people a day, remember all their names, know everything about them documented in social media and public records, and repeat this day after day. What could be done with all this information? Silly to think about because a human could not do this… but artificial intelligence can.” ~Dave Waters

“Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it’s in fact, Man with Machine synergy.” ~Sudipto Ghosh

“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.” ~Elon Musk

“Advancing AI by collecting huge personal profiles is laziness, not efficiency. For artificial intelligence to be truly smart, it must respect human values, including privacy. If we get this wrong, the dangers are profound.” ~Tim Cook

“Listening to Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking talk about artificial intelligence reminds me of the Jurassic Park scene where they talk about chaos theory.” ~Dave Waters

“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” ~Sam Altman

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” ~Stephen Hawking

“In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.” ~Matt Bellamy

“One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.” ~Stephen Hawking