Obama on AI:

Obama on AI:

There is the great risk of science fiction - these models become smarter than us, and they decide that humans are fine, but not necessary. They start setting their targets and the killer robots, you know, kill us, or we bow to them.

I don't want to exaggerate this particular risk, but I will say that there is a non-zero chance of it happening.

And the reason this is a risk is not because the computer models are necessarily conscious. This does not mean that they necessarily feel evil towards humans.

It's just that if they start setting their own agendas, you might get a mismatch between what they want to do and what we want them to do. And this gap can be dangerous.