{"id":2452,"date":"2017-03-04T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:33","slug":"ai-what-could-possibly-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/04\/ai-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: What could possibly go wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2454 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Artificial intelligence concept with man and laptop\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-125x84.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to coming up with dystopian visions of the future, researchers in artificial intelligence can match even the best science fiction writers. Just ask U-M\u00a0computer science professor <strong>Michael Wellman<\/strong>, who dreamed up a stock-market manipulation scenario for a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-02\/ai-scientists-gather-to-plot-doomsday-scenarios-and-solutions\">AI doomsday\u00a0workshop<\/a> which took place at Arizona State University with funding from Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. Officially dubbed &#8220;Envisioning and Addressing Adverse AI Outcomes,&#8221; the event organized some 40 scientists, cyber-security experts, and policy wonks into groups of attackers and defenders playing out AI-gone-very-wrong scenarios, ranging from hacking self-driving cars\u00a0to global warfare.\u00a0Beyond actual solutions, organizers hope the doomsday workshop started conversations on what needs to happen, raised awareness, and combined ideas from different disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to coming up with dystopian visions of the future, researchers in artificial intelligence can match even the best science fiction writers. Just ask U-M\u00a0computer science professor Michael Wellman, who dreamed up a stock-market manipulation scenario for a recent AI doomsday\u00a0workshop which took place at Arizona State University with funding from Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/04\/ai-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"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],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",500,334,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-125x84.jpg",125,84,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",500,334,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",500,334,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",500,334,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",500,334,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015-500x300.jpg",500,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",500,334,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Depositphotos_142820429_s-2015.jpg",374,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When it comes to coming up with dystopian visions of the future, researchers in artificial intelligence can match even the best science fiction writers. 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