How soon will smarter-than-human AI come along? While experts disagree on when this will happen, there’s fear that it could happen suddenly when it does. Governments, militaries, large tech companies, and small startups are all working on superintelligent AI. Most of them see it as a competitive advantage, and would hate to reveal their progress to competing groups. Thus, the ongoing development of the project that ends up succeeding, will probably be kept secret until the last moment. (Policymakers)
How soon will smarter-than-human AI come along? While experts disagree on when this will happen, there’s fear that it could happen suddenly when it does. Governments, militaries, large tech companies, and small startups are all working on superintelligent AI. Most of them see it as a competitive advantage, and would hate to reveal their progress to competing groups. Thus, the ongoing development of the project that ends up succeeding, will probably be kept secret until the last moment. (Policymakers)