Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-19-2014

Department

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Abstract

Many researchers have argued that humanity will create artificial general intelligence (AGI) within the next twenty to one hundred years. It has been suggested that AGI may inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale ('catastrophic risk'). After summarizing the arguments for why AGI may pose such a risk, we review the fields proposed responses to AGI risk. We consider societal proposals, proposals for external constraints on AGI behaviors and proposals for creating AGIs that are safe due to their internal design.

Original Publication Information

Kaj Sotala and Roman V Yampolskiy 2015 Phys. Scr. 90 018001

DOI

10.1088/0031-8949/90/1/018001

ORCID

0000-0001-9637-1161

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