Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk Eliezer Yudkowsky (yudkowsky@singinst.org) Forthcoming in Global Catastrophic Risks‚ eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic Draft of August 31‚ 2006 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Palo Alto‚ CA Introduction By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. Of course this problem is not limited to the field of AI. Jacques Monod wrote: "A curious
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concept of self and their identites through social interaction. By his interaction with the world hes shaping how he or she views others his self and just starts to establish culture valves and norms. With his or her shape of the valves of life from interaction with others and families he/she are gaining understanding of what it takes to be a husband/wifes either because of their father or mother or uncle and aunt relationship. Social interaction is also going to affet on our prespective of understanding
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Staying neutral turned out to be hard to maintain for the U.S. President Wilson first tried to limit the financial involvement in the war by banning American bank loans to the other nations. The Secretary of State believed the ban would bring the war to a quicker
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There were four main principle grounds on which Wilson was willing to reverse America’s diplomatic tradition of remaining neutral. The first principle was that Germany was breaking international law. At that time‚ sinking civilian ships was not allowed internationally. To convince America to no longer remain neutral‚ he addressed the fact that the Germans were not only breaking an U.S. law‚ but also breaking a world law. Another principle was that the U-boats that Germany was attacking with were
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excluded from the national unity. Why?”(Uchmanowicz‚2004) Ali was subjected to reprisals and had to figure out who he was. The dilemma of trying to fit into a category is especially prevalent with multicultural individuals‚ because any one label cannot do their entire identity justice. Biracial students are forced to identify with one parent over the other (Hrydziuszko‚ L.‚1996). In the life of Anna Lisa Raya who was Mexican and Puerto Rican she had to try and figure
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letters that reflect a person ’s DNA makeup‚ which can also be used as the person ’s identifier. DNA profiling should not be confused with full genome sequencing. DNA profiling is used in‚ for example‚ parental testing and criminal investigation. How does it work? Although 99.9% of human DNA sequences are the same in every person‚ enough of the DNA is different that it is possible to distinguish one individual from another‚ unless they are monozygotic twins. DNA profiling uses repetitive sequences
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arguments that TV is a negative presence in young people ’s lives. Yes‚ I agree that some materiel should not be viewed by children‚ but there is a whole spectrum of shows a few networks offer that can be a very positive learning experience for children. Many role models portrayed by these programs demonstrate imaginative and uniquely positive qualities and behaviors that instill in children the thirst for knowledge. The TV program‚ "Dora the Explorer‚" offers a wide variety of positive experiences for
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Contemporary Performance Art: How it Varies From the early 1970’s performance art has become one of the most revolutionary ways of public expression. It is what some people would describe as “against the norm” when bringing up the subject of art. These kind of performances are presented to either random or specific audiences‚ where the performer presents and orchestrates scripted or unscripted work‚ or random and spontaneous works of art which include poetry‚ acting‚ dance‚ song‚ and painting
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Racial prejudice often occurs through first impressions; individuals often associate an individual’s external appearance with personality traits that can be tremendously inaccurate. To reduce problems of racial prejudice in society individuals need to alter their cognitive strategies that are causing them to briefly categorize people in particularly negative ways. Furthermore‚ children need to be taught as well about these negative cognitive strategies and how to avoid categorizing people. Witter
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Experiment Acids‚ Bases‚ and Neutrals Problem Are common house-hold products pH balanced and neutral? Information Gathered pH measures how acidic or alkaline a solution is. The pH scale ranges from 0-14. Solutions that range from 0-6 are considered to be acidic. Solutions that are on the acidic end of the scale are low in pH‚ high in hydrogen ion‚ and low in hydroxyl ions. An acid has a sour taste‚ hence‚ will react to metal and will be corrosive; therefore‚ they are considered as an electrolyte
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