A computer program – AlphaGo – has now beaten the world’s greatest Go player and another threshold for AI has been passed.
As a result a lot of media commentary is focusing on threats – threats to jobs, threats to human security and so on.
But what about the opportunities? Actually, eliminating the necessity of human labour is a good thing – if we ensure the benefits of that are fairly distributed.
The issue is not artificial intelligence – a computer is just another machine and there is nothing magic about “intelligence” in any case (I very much follow Alan Turing in this). The issue is how humans organise their societies.
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