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                  AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?

   Adam Engst

   The multi-talented Stephen Fry has published [1]the text of a talk
   about artificial intelligence he gave as the inaugural 'Living Well
   With Technology' lecture for King's College London's Digital Futures
   Institute, saying:

     Machines are capable of bias, hallucination, drift and overfitting
     on their own, but a greater and more urgent problem in my view is
     their use, abuse and misuse by the three Cs. They are Countries with
     their specific ambitions, paranoias, enmities and pride;
     Corporations with their unaccountable rapacity and of course
     Criminals. All of them united by one deadly sin: greed. Greed for
     power, for status, for money, for control. '¦ We are the danger. Our
     greed. Our enmities, our greed, pride, greed, hatreds, greed and
     moral indolence. And greed.

   That leads him to philosopher Daniel Dennett's suggestion that AI
   should be compared to, regulated, and controlled not like the radio,
   the automobile, the Internet, or even nuclear weapons but like money,
   which is among humankind's most foundational and transformative
   inventions. I'll be pondering this idea, particularly with our
   difficulties surrounding cryptocurrency in mind, and I encourage
   thoughtful people to read Fry's compellingly written and darkly
   humorous piece.

   [2]Read original article

References

   1. https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to
   2. https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to

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