When to Ban the Development of Artificial Intelligence

We should obviously better regulate AI with increased standards on transparency, explainability, privacy, safety, and accountability.

More regulation will slow AI down.

But I’d go two steps further…

Outside of healthcare, we should ban and then reverse the development of artificial intelligence.

After all, outside of healthcare, what could an ever-improving AI give us?

“EVERYTHING!”

Okay, fair enough, but on the road to developing this genie lamp I believe we’d succumb to entropy, enslavement, evolution, and/or extinction.

After a certain point, the risks will outweigh the rewards, and the longer the time horizon you concern yourself with, perhaps, because you love your descendants or because we’ll live longer then the more weight you’ll give to the risks.

When should we ban it?

We can’t ban it until the US wins the AI arms race by unlocking an AI capable of global surveillance and sabotage.