Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has expressed fears about advanced artificial intelligence (AI) — if left unchecked, it has a chance to become the "superior species" of the planet. Vitalik Buterin published a blog post in which he acknowledged that AI is fundamentally different from other ancient and modern inventions, be it social media, contraception, airplanes, guns, the wheel, or the printing press. AI is a new type of mind, it learns quickly and increases intelligence, so it can surpass humans mentally. Artificial intelligence is capable of creating a new type of "mind" that can turn against people, Buterin fears. Buterin claims that unlike climate change, an artificially created pandemic, or nuclear war, in the long run, a "supermind" can end humanity and leave no one alive, especially if it considers humans to be a threat to its own survival. Buterin mentioned an August 2022 survey of more than 4,270 machine learning researchers. According to their estimates, the probability that AI will kill humanity is 5-10%. Buterin emphasized that such statements may be extreme, but humans still have ways to defeat AI. The co-founder of Ethereum proposed to implement brain-computer interfaces (BCI). This is a kind of connection between the electrical activity of the brain and the external device. BCIs can give people direct access to powerful forms of computation and knowledge, reducing the two-way communication cycle between a person and a device from seconds to milliseconds. This will significantly reduce the cost of mental effort, which will make it possible to more effectively collect data, put forward proposals or execute plans, Buterin is sure. In this way, decision-making responsibility will not be transferred to AI, and this will reduce the likelihood that AI will independently resort to harming humanity. "The brain can be improved with the help of biological innovations. To combine them with BCI, it would be possible to download our minds to work directly on computers.
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