A killer robot from the 2009 film "Terminator Salvation" — exactly the type of future we don't want to see. Warner Bros.Control Dangerous AI Before It Controls Us, One Expert Says -- MSNBC/Innovation
He believes super-intelligent computers could one day threaten humanity's existence
Super-intelligent computers or robots have threatened humanity's existence more than once in science fiction. Such doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware.
Keeping the artificial intelligence genie trapped in the proverbial bottle could turn an apocalyptic threat into a powerful oracle that solves humanity's problems, said Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. But successful containment requires careful planning so that a clever breed of artificial intelligence cannot simply threaten, bribe, seduce or hack its way to freedom.
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