Will There Be No Discrimination in an AI-Driven World?
Eye-Catching Advanced Technologies The tragic death of George Floyd has ignited intense controversy over racial discrimination. Yet, I suddenly had a strange thought—that in the near future, many people might come to miss the world we live in now. A chilly fear passed through me. The point at which a superintelligence, more advanced than the combined intellectual capacity of all humans with normal brains, appears is called the “Technological Singularity.” It is casually presumed—under the guise of expert deliberation—that this will happen around the year 2040. Stephen Hawking, Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates (who in 2015 raised alarms that it would be a major threat, but from 2019 began speaking more of its positive aspects, calling it a double-edged sword and saying they would invest—why the change?) have all actively warned of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. While Elon Musk is pouring all his efforts into developing Tesla cars, he is also working on the Neur...
