{"id":4195,"date":"2017-06-08T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:22","slug":"domesticating-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/08\/domesticating-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Good boy! Domesticating AI to protect humans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U-M computer science professor Igor Markov<\/strong> believes an attack by artificial intelligence<\/a> on humans would sort of be like when the Black Plague hit Europe in the 14th century, killing\u00a0up to 50\u00a0percent of a populatioin that had no idea what was happening or why.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be illustrative of what you might expect if a superintelligent AI would attack. You would not know precisely what\u2019s going on, there would be huge problems, and you would be almost helpless,\u201d said Markov, who is also a Google software engineer.<\/p>\n

Markov\u00a0joined sci-fi author David Brin\u00a0and other influential names in the artificial intelligence community at\u00a0The AI Conference<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco on June 2. Rather than devising technological solutions, Markov looked to lessons from ancient history for survival in such a situation, such as developing “friendly” AI to act as a protector, much in the way humans domesticated wolves to become modern dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U-M computer science professor Igor Markov believes an attack by artificial intelligence on humans would sort of be like when the Black Plague hit Europe in the 14th century, killing\u00a0up to 50\u00a0percent of a populatioin that had no idea what was happening or why. \u201cThis would be illustrative of what you might expect if a superintelligent AI would\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4196,"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-4195","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\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",640,426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",600,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",640,426,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",640,426,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",640,426,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4003436738_79417c7f12_z.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"U-M computer science professor Igor Markov believes an attack by artificial intelligence on humans would sort of be like when the Black Plague hit Europe in the 14th century, killing\u00a0up to 50\u00a0percent of a populatioin that had no idea what was happening or why. \u201cThis would be illustrative of what you might expect if a…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}