AI researcher Dan Hendrycks published a paper warning that artificial intelligence could play by the rules of natural selection and eventually lead humans to lose control of their future.
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Under the traditional definition of natural selection, animals, humans and other organisms that most quickly adapt to their environment have a better shot at surviving. In his paper, Hendrycks examines how"evolution has been the driving force behind the development of life" for billions of years, and he argues that"Darwinian logic" could also apply to artificial intelligence.
As humans and corporations task AI with different goals, it will lead to a"wide variation across the AI population," the AI researcher argues. Hendrycks uses an example that one company might set a goal for AI to"plan a new marketing campaign" with a side-constraint that the law must not be broken while completing the task.