{"id":5223,"date":"2022-03-31T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/as-artificial-intelligence-gets-smarter-is-it-game-over-for-humans-letters\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:36:17","slug":"as-artificial-intelligence-gets-smarter-is-it-game-over-for-humans-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/as-artificial-intelligence-gets-smarter-is-it-game-over-for-humans-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"As artificial intelligence gets smarter, is it game over for humans? | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jonathan Michie<\/strong> on why robots of the future must be programmed to explain what they do and why, and <strong>Chris Percy<\/strong> on AI and bridge<\/p>\n<p>You are right to acknowledge the work of Donald Michie (full disclosure: I\u2019m his son) on artificial intelligence developing new insights rather than relying on brute force, and on the importance of AI communicating these insights to humans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/30\/the-guardian-view-on-bridging-human-and-machine-learning-its-all-in-the-game\" title=\"\">The Guardian view on bridging human and machine learning: it\u2019s all in the game, 30 March<\/a>). This pioneering work is important for the reasons you explain; it also speaks to debates on whether the rise of the robots will result in them enslaving us.<\/p>\n<p>My father argued that it was vital that the robots and AI of the future must be required (programmed) to explain what they were doing and why in terms understandable to humans. Without that, we really will be in trouble \u2013 from the routine (why did the driverless car crash?) to the existential.<br \/><strong>Jonathan Michie<\/strong><br \/><em>Professor of innovation and knowledge exchange, and president of Kellogg College,<\/em> <em>University of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/31\/as-artificial-intelligence-gets-smarter-is-it-game-over-for-humans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/66bd9677ed70281c822c8b94084bf76cc79a6317\/0_301_5500_3300\/master\/5500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7fd95f2d553eeb436fc0a6bcec357c79\" title=\"As artificial intelligence gets smarter, is it game over for humans? | Letters\" \/>Jonathan Michie on why robots of the future must be programmed to explain what they do and why, and Chris Percy on AI and bridge<br \/>\nYou are right to acknowledge the work of Donald Michie (full disclosure: I\u2019m his son) on artificial intelligence developing new insights rather than relying on brute force, and on the importance of AI communicating these insights to humans (The Guardian view on bridging human and machine learning: it\u2019s all in the game, 30 March). This pioneering work is important for the reasons you explain; it also speaks to debates on whether the rise of the robots will result in them enslaving us.<br \/>\nMy father argued that it was vital that the robots and AI of the future must be required (programmed) to explain what they were doing and why in terms understandable to humans. Without that, we really will be in trouble \u2013 from the routine (why did the driverless car crash?) to the existential.Jonathan MichieProfessor of innovation and knowledge exchange, and president of Kellogg College, University of Oxford Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Michie on why robots of the future must be programmed to explain what they do and why, and Chris Percy on AI and bridge You are right to acknowledge the work of Donald Michie (full disclosure: I\u2019m his son) on artificial intelligence developing new insights rather than relying on brute force, and on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/as-artificial-intelligence-gets-smarter-is-it-game-over-for-humans-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As artificial intelligence gets smarter, is it game over for humans? | Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}