What to do? A good first step, we think, would be to stop treating intelligent machines as the stuff of science fiction, and start thinking of them as a part of the reality that we or our descendants may actually confront, sooner or later. via Artificial intelligence – can we keep it in the box?.
Cambridge to study risks from robots at ‘Terminator Centre’ – Hindustan Times
In 1965, Irving John ‘Jack’ Good wrote a paper for New Scientist called ‘Speculations concerning the first ultra-intelligent machine’.
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Many scientists are concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole. Such dangers have been suggested from progress in AI, from developments in biotechnology and artificial life, from nanotechnology, and from possible extreme effects of anthropogenic climate change. via Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Cambridge University’s “Terminator studies” department – do we really need it? | Education | The Guardian
We are a risk-averse society. But there's a mismatch between public perception of very different risks and their actual seriousness.
BBC News – Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied
The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous".
Cambridge center to study tech extinction risks | TG Daily
"We should be investing a little of our intellectual resources in shifting some probability from bad outcomes to good ones." via Cambridge center to study tech extinction risks | TG Daily.
I. J. Good – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An originator of the concept now known as "technological singularity," Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
« Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make. »
Cambridge University to open ‘Terminator centre’ to study threat to humans from artificial intelligence | Mail Online
A centre for 'terminator studies', where leading academics will study the threat that robots pose to humanity, is set to open at Cambridge University.
‘Terminator centre’ to open at Cambridge University | The Sun |News
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic Terminator films famously showed a world where ultra-intelligent machines fight against humanity in the form of the genocidal Skynet system.
Cambridge University to open ’Terminator centre’ to study threat to humans from artificial intelligence
Cambridge University to open 'Terminator centre' to study threat to humans from artificial intelligence