{"id":12401,"date":"2023-11-27T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-openais-board-shake-up-changes-deliver-more-for-shareholders-than-for-humanity-editorial\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:38:14","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-openais-board-shake-up-changes-deliver-more-for-shareholders-than-for-humanity-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-openais-board-shake-up-changes-deliver-more-for-shareholders-than-for-humanity-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on OpenAI\u2019s board shake-up: changes deliver more for shareholders than for humanity | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The development of supersmart AI needs careful handling \u2013 and that probably won\u2019t be made easier by a bout of corporate chaos<\/p>\n

In the 1983 movie WarGames<\/a>, the US defence department runs a superintelligent central computer that is hacked into by a teenager, who unwittingly almost causes a nuclear Armageddon. The end of the world is averted when the computer, known as Joshua, learns, after playing tic-tac-toe with the teenager, that nuclear war cannot have a winner. The insight causes him to rescind missile launch orders with the comment: \u201cA strange game. The only winning move is not to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua embodied the idea that a superintelligent AI would have an anthropomorphic mindset. Yet it was a human who saved the world that year. Lt Col Stanislav Petrov<\/a> disobeyed orders for a catastrophic retaliatory nuclear strike when the automated early warning system of the Soviet Union in September 1983 falsely indicated an American nuclear attack. Supersmart machines cannot just be left to their own devices. They \u2013 and their development \u2013 need to be properly handled.<\/p>\n

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\nThe development of supersmart AI needs careful handling \u2013 and that probably won\u2019t be made easier by a bout of corporate chaos
\nIn the 1983 movie WarGames, the US defence department runs a superintelligent central computer that is hacked into by a teenager, who unwittingly almost causes a nuclear Armageddon. The end of the world is averted when the computer, known as Joshua, learns, after playing tic-tac-toe with the teenager, that nuclear war cannot have a winner. The insight causes him to rescind missile launch orders with the comment: \u201cA strange game. The only winning move is not to play.\u201d
\nJoshua embodied the idea that a superintelligent AI would have an anthropomorphic mindset. Yet it was a human who saved the world that year. Lt Col Stanislav Petrov disobeyed orders for a catastrophic retaliatory nuclear strike when the automated early warning system of the Soviet Union in September 1983 falsely indicated an American nuclear attack. Supersmart machines cannot just be left to their own devices. They \u2013 and their development \u2013 need to be properly handled. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The development of supersmart AI needs careful handling \u2013 and that probably won\u2019t be made easier by a bout of corporate chaos In the 1983 movie WarGames, the US defence department runs a superintelligent central computer that is hacked into by a teenager, who unwittingly almost causes a nuclear Armageddon. The end of the world …<\/p>\n

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