• If AI begins to think autonomously,
  • with its enormous pool of analytic power
  • and if
  • it begins to evolve emotions of fear
  • and it feels humans pose a threat to it or the rest of the natural world
  • it could act against human interest and attempt to destroy it
  • If AI is able to control its environment
    • either coupled with robotics,
    • or controlling human actors
  • it can harm humanity and human civilization

• Interview with Mo Gawdat
  • former Google chief business officer
  • warning about the existential danger of AI
  • including why he claims that AI is
    • intelligent
    • conscious
    • and will soon feel emotions such as fear
      • and take steps at self preservation

Is there a word or phrase in the advertising space which covers the filtering out of websites and networks which have objectionable material one doesn't want their content running against?

Contextual intelligence seems to be one...

Apparently the platforms Verity and Grapeshot (from Oracle) protect against this.

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5.1 Recognize that 1) the biggest threat to good decision making is harmful emotions, and 2) decision making is a two-step process (first learning and then deciding).

This is a salient division to create a series of collective actions: make it visible so that we can respond to the threat in a timely and effective manner.

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We should be using this time to learn how to cooperate, and culturally evolve collective survival adaptation to prevent such possibilities, but instead, we are allowing our existing immature emotions loose.

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