Prospects for a Qualitative Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence Development and Possible Models for Social Development: Opportunities and Threatsстатья
Аннотация:The further development of human society will depend to a great extent on the qualitative improvement of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence (AI) robots. Along with the development of AI and other technologies, social relations will change, thereby changing the natural cognitive and physical capabilities of people. This chapter discusses possible ways promising forms of AI (artificial general intelligence, strong artificial intelligence, super artificial intelligence) can be created, the risks of that creation, and the interconnected process of human enhancement using achievements in genetic engineering and cyborgization. The author also focuses on the risks and possibilities of transhumanism, threats from the malicious use of AI in provoking nuclear conflict, and the factors involved in transitioning from the malicious use of AI to independent, malicious actions of advanced AI forms in the more distant future. By analyzing a wide array of global development scenarios, the author concludes that the predominantly positive or negative results of enhanced human activity and advanced forms of AI, as well as the forms that these interactions take, will be decisively socially conditioned. Without social and technological changes, including a corresponding qualitative systemic development of human abilities and a higher level of social justice and responsibility, humanity is doomed to perish.