Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking are enrolled in the "Luddites of the Year"

The Commission of Experts calling itself Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, опубликовала list of nominations for the prize "Luddite year", which includes 10 items. According to the authors of the award there are quite a number of people believe that the development of future technologies, such as RFID-tags or genetically modified organisms, is a danger to humanity. The first item in the list of "fear" means artificial intelligence (AI) and, according to the authors of the award, its danger unnecessarily declare Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking. At the award "Luddites» обратила attention The Guardian.

Indeed, some people, including Elon Musk, consider that the development of AI in the end can lead to the fact that the "mind machines" acquire some dangerous traits for humanity, whereby people will be enslaved or destroyed. This topic was assiduously exploited in such famous Hollywood films like "The Matrix" and "Terminator", and thus "the fear of AI" strengthened in the representation of society. Elon Musk last year expressed concern that artificial intelligence can be more dangerous than nuclear weapons:

Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.- Elon Musk (elonmusk) August 3, 2014 blockquote>
 Authors premiums believe that such an opinion about the future of humanity - it's just a false understanding of artificial intelligence at this stage of its development. The question of whether such a situation in which AI can be truly autonomous and acquire the "mind" - is debatable and, at least, the question is not the immediate future. So the efforts of scientists working on Siri or thermostats Nest, hardly lead to the fact that one day they will want to destroy their creators.

Full list "Luddism" were as follows. Attached document ( pdf ), in which the authors argue the invalidity of such representations.

• The fear of artificial intelligence.
• The ban on autonomous defensive weapon, the so-called "killer robots».
• The restrictions on the use of automatic scanners car numbers.
• The restrictions on the use of Uber-like services.
• Avoiding the use of electronic tagging of goods instead of paper.
• ban the use of RFID-tags in the driver's license in California. < Conflicts between private property and the public interest. There is a view of a case in Wyoming (USA), when the owners of private land through the courts have banned members of non-profit organizations to carry out biological studies on their territory.
• To cancel the principle of network neutrality
• The fight against genetically modified foods < /
• The restriction on the use of auto-commit violations of traffic regulations
   As you know, Luddism - it is a social movement that emerged during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, whose members saw the main danger for themselves that the new machines in production can replace them in the workplace and so the equipment must be destroyed.
  
  Source: geektimes.ru/post/268340/