{"id":1871,"date":"2017-02-08T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:37","slug":"preventing-the-ai-pocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/preventing-the-ai-pocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing the AI-pocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1875\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1875\" class=\"wp-image-1875 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"illustration of half-human half-robot head\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/glas-8\/17552860796\/in\/photolist-sK5ZYY-9cDmTe-gK7mBg-cApjmj-8k1fxD-2iB7U-QYuzF4-bhL7xR-rnk7fV-siYmCU-rnkA7g-s2ycMh-s2yZdu-rZPU9v-siZAhW-pKEQqQ-dLSKTQ-8F8snF-78UiA5-78gAtb-EFRdEh-4U9gTE-pNAqJw-CL1rgG-S2swG4-4HDoCk-dGyUY2-7Mbzwn-5kjmfU-57T5n8-6zeQLo-brdXxC-feRjWf-iuKUW-pCebY4-fiVEFG-4GXcBN-bPiv7B-uJ7Pvf-Px5Q71-cv8pw1-mocVVz-6jDokr-emaoyD-e2uNkv-dmV3G2-9hMiUz-n7Bfgq-3aPuVg-cuArAW\/\">GLAS-8\/flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 _10M0Ygc4\" data-reactid=\"207\">A panel on AI ethics and education in San Francisco hosted by the Future of Life Institute\u00a0warned about unforeseen consequences if researchers ignore the inherent <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/02\/06\/artificial-intelligence-ethics-disasters\/\">ethical dilemmas in the emerging technology<\/a>. <strong>Benjamin Kuipers<\/strong>, a computer science professor and AI researcher at U-M, explained that although humans program AI-powered robots to accomplish a particular goal, these robots will typically make decisions on their own to reach the goal.\u00a0It\u2019s these smaller decisions that robots make on their own that can cause trouble because human programmers could fail to take all of a robot&#8217;s possible choices into account. \u201cThis is not the robot apocalypse,\u201d said Kuipers. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing here are robots pursuing human-generated goals in unconstrained ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel on AI ethics and education in San Francisco hosted by the Future of Life Institute\u00a0warned about unforeseen consequences if researchers ignore the inherent ethical dilemmas in the emerging technology. Benjamin Kuipers, a computer science professor and AI researcher at U-M, explained that although humans program AI-powered robots to accomplish a particular goal, these robots will typically\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/preventing-the-ai-pocalypse\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,204],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai","tag-conference"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",640,427,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-150x100.jpg",150,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",600,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",640,427,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",640,427,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",640,427,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17552860796_ce80250904_z.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A panel on AI ethics and education in San Francisco hosted by the Future of Life Institute\u00a0warned about unforeseen consequences if researchers ignore the inherent ethical dilemmas in the emerging technology. 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