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SUMMARY:Minds Like Ours: An Approach to Artificial Intelligence Risk - Pro
 fessor Murray Shanahan\, Imperial College London
DTSTART:20150220T160000Z
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CONTACT:Nicholas Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Writers who speculate about the future of artificial intellige
 nce (AI) and its attendant risks often caution against anthropomorphism\, 
 the tendency to ascribe human-like characteristics to something non human.
  An AI that is engineered from first principles will attain its goals in w
 ays that would be hard to predict\, and therefore hard to control\, especi
 ally if it is able to modify and improve on its own design. However\, this
  is not the only route to human-level AI. An alternative is to deliberatel
 y set out to make the AI not only human-level but also human-like. The mos
 t obvious way to do this is to base the architecture of the AI on that of 
 the human brain. But this path has its own difficulties\, many pertaining 
 to the issue of consciousness. Do we really want to create an artefact tha
 t is not only capable of empathy\, but also capable of suffering?\n
LOCATION:Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, University of 
 Cambridge
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