Dr. Jeff Beck

I don't have this big concern about – I don't really believe that Skynet is going to take over or the internet is going to suddenly become conscious and kill us all.

In part because AI is not that advanced, but also because we are still in the position where we specify the goals of the system.

And that will likely continue for a very long time.

And it will always be the case that these systems are subject to review.

We will always keep an eye on them.

They will always, at least initially, be released in relatively restricted domains where we're keeping a close eye on what it is that they are and are not doing.

so I don't worry too much about like the going rogue.

I worry a lot more about somebody building, you know, it's sort of like a virus, which we already have to deal with.

Like somebody builds like some insane virus and like takes down the internet.

Um,

I'm more worried about malicious human actors than I am malicious AI actors, because at the end of the day, all of these algorithms, they simply do what they are told.

We train them.

We tell them, here's your objective function.

As long as we are specifying the objective function and we understand the objective function, we're probably going to be OK.

I think the safest way to deal with AI concerns is to tell people, hey, look, this AI is just doing what we told it to.

We set it up to make really good predictions.

and to achieve these outcomes.

Now, is it dangerous to specify these outcomes without being very, very, very careful?

Yes, it is.

This is the whole like, hey, Skynet, end world hunger, and it kills all humans.