AI is good and won’t cause extinction
Shermer 17—Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the Science Salon Podcast, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. ("Why artificial intelligence is not an existential threat", Skeptic, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2017, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A497859054/AONE?u=ksstate_ukans&sid=AONE&xid=dc2288db) | AC
This brings to mind the "hard problem" of consciousness—if we don't understand how this happens in humans, how could we program it into computers? As Steven Pinker elucidated in his answer to the 2015 Edge Question on what to think about machines that think, "AI dystopias project a parochial alpha-male psychology onto the concept of intelligence. They assume that superhumanly intelligent robots would develop goals like deposing their masters or taking over the world." It is equally possible, Pinker suggests, that "artificial intelligence will naturally develop along female lines: fully capable of solving problems, but with no desire to annihilate innocents or dominate the civilization." (14) So the fear that computers will become emotionally evil are unfounded, because without the suite of these evolved emotions it will never occur to AIs to take such actions against us.