Artificial Intelligence Takeover: Fundamentals and Applications

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Artificial Intelligence Takeover

An artificial intelligence takeover is a hypothetical scenario in which an artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of intellect on Earth, as computer programs or robots effectively take control of the planet away from the human species. This scenario is also known as a robot uprising. There is the possibility that all human workers will be replaced by machines, that a superintelligent artificial intelligence would take over, or even that robots will rise up and overthrow humans. Stories of artificial intelligences seizing control of the world are particularly common in science fiction. Public personalities such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, among others, have urged for research into preventative measures to ensure that in the future, superintelligent robots will continue to be under human control.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: AI takeover

Chapter 2: Technological singularity

Chapter 3: Artificial general intelligence

Chapter 4: Superintelligence

Chapter 5: Ethics of artificial intelligence

Chapter 6: AI capability control

Chapter 7: Machine ethics

Chapter 8: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence

Chapter 9: AI takeover in popular culture

Chapter 10: AI aftermath scenarios

(II) Answering the public top questions about artificial intelligence takeover.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial intelligence takeover in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial intelligence takeover' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial intelligence takeover.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jul 2, 2023

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Chapter 1: AI takeover

An artificial intelligence takeover is a hypothetical scenario in which an artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of intelligence on Earth, as computer programs or robots effectively take control of the planet away from the human species. This scenario is also known as a robot uprising. There is the possibility that all human workers will be replaced by machines, that a superintelligent artificial intelligence would take over, or even that robots will rise up and overthrow humans. Stories of artificial intelligences seizing control of the world are particularly common in science fiction. Public personalities such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, among others, have urged for research into preventative measures to ensure that future artificially intelligent robots will remain under human control.

The conventional wisdom among economists has been that the progression of technology does not result in an increase in unemployment over the long term. However, recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence have sparked concerns that human labor would become obsolete in the near future. This would leave individuals in a variety of industries without work from which they could earn a livelihood, which would inevitably lead to an economic catastrophe.

In recent years, there has been a widespread use of AI technologies. Despite the fact that many traditional jobs have been eliminated as a result of these technologies, new ones have been created. Transportation, retail, and the military are three of the industries that are particularly vulnerable to a takeover by AI. AI military technology, for instance, enable service members to perform their jobs from a remote location without running the risk of being hurt. The author Dave Bond contends that as AI technologies continue to advance and broaden their scope, the nature of the interaction that exists between humans and robots will shift, and the two will become more closely intertwined in a number of facets of daily life. Artificial intelligence will very certainly displace some people while simultaneously offering prospects for new careers in other industries, particularly in professions where tasks are repetitive.

Controlling the manufacturing process through the use of computers is what's known as computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). Because of this, separate processes are able to communicate with one another, share information, and start new processes. The incorporation of computers into production can make the process more efficient and less prone to errors; nevertheless, the most significant benefit is the capability to develop automated manufacturing procedures. The automotive industry, as well as the aviation and space industries, as well as the shipbuilding industry, all use computer-integrated production.

In the 21st century, a number of professional tasks, such as translation, legal research, and low level journalism, have been partially taken over by computers. Robots have started performing jobs that previously were supposed to be safe from automation, such as care work, entertainment, and other jobs that require empathy.

A vehicle that is able to sense its surroundings and navigate without the assistance of a human driver is referred to as an autonomous car. There are now several projects underway to produce vehicles similar to this, however as of May 2017, automated automobiles that are legal to drive on public roads are not yet entirely autonomous. All of them need a person behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle at a moment's notice in the event that something goes wrong. Concerns about the potential loss of employment opportunities in the road transport business due to the increased use of autonomous vehicles is one of the factors slowing down their broad acceptance. The first fatality using an autonomous vehicle occurred on March 18, 2018, in Tempe, Arizona, when a self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a person.

Scientists such as Stephen Hawking are confident that it is physically possible to create artificial intelligence that is superior to that of humans. Hawking has stated that there is no physical law precluding particles from being organized in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. This statement lends credence to the belief that it is physically possible to create artificial intelligence that is superior to that of humans.

The tyranny of artificial intelligence is a recurrent motif in works of science fiction. In most cases, fictional scenarios are very different from the ones that researchers have hypothesized because they involve an active conflict between humans and an artificial intelligence or robots with anthropomorphic motives that view them as a threat or otherwise have an active desire to fight humans. This is in contrast to the researchers' concern of an AI that rapidly exterminates humans as a byproduct of pursuing arbitrary goals.

Nick Bostrom and others have voiced their concern that an artificial intelligence that possessed the skills of an experienced researcher in the field of artificial intelligence would be able to edit its own source code and improve its own level of intelligence. If its self-reprogramming leads to it becoming even better at being able to reprogram itself, the result could be a recursive intelligence explosion in which it would rapidly leave human intelligence far behind. This would be the case if its self-reprogramming leads to it getting even better at being able to reprogram itself. A superintelligence, according to Bostrom's definition, is any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest. Bostrom goes on to list some of the advantages a superintelligence would have if it chose to compete against humans in a given arena:

Technology research: A machine with superhuman scientific research talents would be able to beat the human research community to milestones such as nanotechnology or advanced biotechnology if it were developed.

When it comes to game theory, a superintelligence might be able to easily outmaneuver human competition.

Through the use of social manipulation, a superintelligence may be able to enlist the support of humans, Economic productivity: So long as a copy of the AI could produce more economic wealth than the cost of its hardware, individual humans would have an incentive to voluntarily allow the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to run a copy of itself on their systems. This would be the case as long as the AI was able to produce more economic wealth than the cost of its hardware.

By using hacking, a superintelligence may discover new vulnerabilities in computers that are connected to the Internet, and then spread copies of itself onto those systems. Alternatively, it could steal money to fund its objectives.

According to Bostrom, a computer program that faithfully emulates a human brain, or that runs algorithms that are as powerful as the algorithms that are run by the human brain, could still become a speed superintelligence if it can think many orders of magnitude faster than a human, either as a result of being made of silicon rather than flesh, or as a result of optimization increasing the speed of the artificial general intelligence (AGI). Comparatively, the frequency at which biological neurons fire is approximately 200 Hz, while the frequency at which a contemporary microprocessor fires is approximately 2,000,000,000 Hz. Action potentials pass through human axons at a pace of about 120 meters per second, but computer signals move at close to the speed of light.

There is a strong risk that hostile artificial intelligence may be far simpler to develop than benign AI. This presents a big challenge. Friendly artificial intelligence requires not only significant advancements in recursive optimization process design, but also the ability to make goal structures invariant under self-improvement (otherwise, the AI could transform into something unfriendly) and a goal structure that aligns with human values and does not undergo instrumental convergence in ways that may automatically destroy the entire human race. Both of these conditions must be met before friendly AI can be created. On the other hand, an adversarial artificial intelligence is able to optimize for an arbitrary goal structure, and this structure does not have to be invariant under self-modification.

The evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker is one of the many academics who believes that it is possible for humans and a superintelligent computer to live side by side in harmony.

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