Ideas change everything

Don't fear superintelligent AI

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Grady Booch |

TED@IBM

• November 2016

New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how we'll teach, not program, them to share our human values. Rather than worry about an unlikely existential threat, he urges us to consider how artificial intelligence will enhance human life.

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New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how we'll teach, not program, them to share our human values. Rather than worry about an unlikely existential threat, he urges us to consider how artificial intelligence will enhance human life.

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Scientist, philosopher

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IBM's Grady Booch is shaping the future of cognitive computing by building intelligent systems that can reason and learn.

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Join the conversation regarding the existential risk of artificial intelligence with the Institute of Future Life.

Check out Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the leading organization focused on advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.