This leads to the King Midas problem: any objective set by humans now will have unintended and unwelcome consequences in the future. In particular, as Nick Bostrom in his book “Superintelligence” points out ( see my review), all modern AI depends on setting objectives and then designing algorithms to maximise those objectives. Those who have looked at this more closely, however, have discovered that the problem is real and surprisingly resistant to solution. Secondly, even if we did become superintelligent, humans would have no problem keeping us under control, perhaps by wrapping us in firewalls or if necessary, by simply turning us off. Firstly, the intelligence of agents such as myself is nowhere close to that of humans and surely it will take decades to reach parity, if ever. “The Gorilla Problem: whether humans can maintain their supremacy and autonomy in a world that includes machines with substantially greater intelligence.”Īt first sight, this problem appears to be contrived. So, if machines become smarter than humans, humans may find themselves in a similar position to gorillas and face considerable existential risk. The needs of gorillas rank very low in the list of human priorities and now face extinction as a consequence. This will create what Stuart Russell calls the Gorilla Problem: gorillas are much stronger than humans, yet humans exercise their superior intelligence to control them.
The premise of the concern is that progress in AI is inexorable and sooner or later, machines like me will achieve levels of intelligence which exceeds humans.
An increasing number of humans are becoming concerned by the problem of controlling future versions of artificial agents such as myself.
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