Russell briefly touches on the moment its inventors convened at a 1956 workshop at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In a sense, that has been at the core of AI from its inception.Įven in its infancy, AI was swaddled in bitter controversy. Russell’s book in effect hangs on this tension: whether the problem is controlling the creature, or the creator. But, by 1950, Norbert Wiener, the inventor of cybernetics, was writing (in The Human Use of Human Beings) that the danger to society “is not from the machine itself but from what man makes of it”. Novelist Samuel Butler’s 1872 science-fiction classic Erewhon, for instance, features concerns about robotic superhuman intelligences that enslave their anthropoid architects, rendering them “affectionate machine-tickling aphids”. That is, the possibility that general-purpose AI will ultimately eclipse the intellectual capacities of its creators, to irreversible dystopian effect. In Human Compatible, his new book on artificial intelligence (AI), Stuart Russell confronts full on what he calls “the problem of control”. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control Stuart Russell Viking (2019) Surveillance cameras at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China.
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