If the three laws are inserted into every AI programme, then humanity has nothing to worry about: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law This would be the best fail-safe
Given that quant algorithms/models, that nobody really understood properly, were one of the single biggest factors in the near collapse of the banking system in 2008 I think we should be a little bit worried about a growing dependence on 'AI'. It won't be about switching on a clever robot which thinks or feels like us, it will be the slow but consistent move towards automation of everything in society, to the point where it will be so complex that we can't turn it off without causing an economic collapse (riots/mass starvation). Give it a decade and Google cars will be driving us everywhere, traffic lights will be redundant for everything but pedestrians. The likes of stock deliveries to Tesco will be automated - they are already talking about human-free cargo ships delivering stuff from A to B. They might even be at the stage where your shopping gets delivered to you (Amazon are testing drones). They are already talking about collecting big data in medicine, so that you will have an Apple watch that monitors your health, tells you what you need to do to fix it - Gene profiling will tell you the percentage chance of getting some disease, and what you need to do to prevent it - there might even be Gene therapies to fix all the dodgy ones. Basically Free Will be dead - you may be free to ignore the robot telling you to take some more vitamin C, cut down on red meat and fix that dodgy gene, but on average the computer will be right, and on average the people will take its advice - the randomness of life will be reduced to a set of probabilities. The computers will be our masters, and we'll barely notice it happening.
Anyway, I've linked to this once or twice, it's an excellent (long long) article on how technology could incrementally replace free will (as well as possibly destroy us, Terminator style) http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set= - it was written in 2001, and the scarey thing is that we appear to be well on the road to what it predicted would happen, with automation etc.
Be afraid, be very afraid of this mincing queerhawk which is the embodiment of AI. please log in to view this image
What you really mean is people that don't want to live until 200 will die, I don' t have to have a computer tell me to eat more fruit and veg and drink less it's huge mega corps that will sell us all this shiny junk so we need to work harder or borrow money to buy an elictric car that toodles around in a traffic jam without switching lanes or exceeding speed limits. The ****s that wait in line to buy these stupid Apple watches ( got yours yet Mick) are just going to be bombarded by adverts 24/7 targeting them from their buying history. It's better for your soul to sell up buy a plot of land in another country grow your own organic food install solar panels and live how narure intended us to live by baking your own bread and killing your own meat collecting fresh eggs so you know exactly what you are consuming. You could even sell what you don't need to pay for things that you can't make yourself. You will never have time to get bored as there will always be something to do. My mum bought a few acres in Spain and built a cool house with a big pool keeps chickens and has fields of olive and almond trees grows apples grapes potato corn loads of stuff makes jam from summer fruit makes yoghurt has a big wood fuel oven outside put up solar panels and has everything she needs. They have wi fi satelite tv and spends 2 months travelling to the few countries she hasn't visited in winter.
This was 1931 and people were freaking then please log in to view this image Get over it,**** happens.
