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But soaked in bleach 9091 sort of sets the tone for where we had next hearing about how we were cutting out some places that are on the frontlines of the technological technology wars we got a place called the Creech Air Force Base It's about 30 minute drive from Las Vegas and it used to be just this tiny little bump in the road kind of Air Force Base today it's gigantic It's sprawling there are new buildings and facilities it is the home of our drone warfare program so a pilot will leave his home in Las Vegas and drive to work and go into a building there and sit behind a console and control drones that there are flying on the other side of the world in Iraq. Acar Afghanistan they could fire missiles and take out the enemy and then go home and have dinner with their families it's an amazing technological leap in a short amount of time in another part of Nevada a place that I've written about many times over the years sources have told us they are working on war planes that don't need pilots at all that don't need even pilots on the ground giving them controls they'd be able to autonomously make decisions about who to engage in who to take out and that's kind of scary when you've got people like Elon Musk whose opinion I value value highly warning us that we need to slow down and take a look at the pace of technological change and the possible threats that artificial intelligence could represent Well I pay attention to that and so does Peter j. Scott he's written a book called Crisis of control how artificial super intelligence may destroy or save the human race Peter Scott joins me in just a moment. If you've got a 4 a one k. 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To catch them. They Yuba City and Mary Snow This is Michael Savage don't miss the savage they should live weekdays from noon to 3 right here on the Patriots 1410 am and 104.3 f.m. . Welcome back Peter j. Scott received a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University worked for NASA as Jet Propulsion Lab as an employee and contractor for more than 30 years and has branched out into writing technical books and training manuals has also developed a parallel career in quote soft fields of human development which kind of gives him a unique perspective his new book Crisis of control how artificial super intelligence is made destroy or save the human race is an eye opener Peter welcome to the program for the 1st time I was there once and thank you very much for having me on the So wow what a book I mean I you know I've been reading articles like everyone else people like Elon Musk and others making these warnings hey we better pay attention to where it's heading your book does a great job of trying to balance the possible risks and the promise of super intelligence but I'll tell you it's scared the bejesus out of me. Well yes perhaps it's a good thing that the audience already has insomnia because I now I can't be blamed for them not being able to sleep. And when I 1st started speaking about this and 2013 I had to preface everything I was saying with I know this is going to sound crazy but and since then people like me on last can also Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking have made their voices known Sally Wyatt Lee And so this book I positioned as something that would. Explain to people just what it was that they were talking about I like how you frame it in the beginning but the process being say an astronomer discovers a comet that's probably going to hit earth or might hit Earth how would you approach it and that's the same as as you approach it in this book. Yes and I've always loved a good asteroid impact story and it is something that is very hard to. Assimilate because it sounds like so much science fiction and it is science fiction to it's rather good science fiction and the hands of a better offer than me and and yet this is an inevitable future and not just in science fictional timescales like hundreds of years but in more like a couple of decades. You know you're right that if you want to know whether the future is bright or bleak the answer is It depends. That's what I meant by you being sort of balanced in this but it's not going to help me settle down at all well. Sorry about that but I can't sugarcoat this and it's a realisation that when I came to it and really it's because I'm relatively new father that it wouldn't let me go it's said to me that I had to put this message out there for the sake of my daughters and when you're in that position as a father well you'll do anything including make a an idiot of yourself if it's their future that that's at stake and the purpose it's not just their future. In the 1st chapter you write as as fiction and it's a very effective tool in describing a scenario in the not too distant future where humans are basically on the run wanted to go ahead and tell that story and then we'll sort of backtrack on how we can get there yes and the neat thing about fiction is that it lets you come up with a possible future without having to qualify it and say well there are many other ways that this could play out but in this scenario in 10 years or so we're following a couple of people Ryan and his girlfriend claim who are getting out of San Francisco because it's besieged by killer viruses that. Mutating and and causing havoc and they take refuge in an impromptu commune in Montana and. Ryan is communicating through his computer with an artificial intelligence that he and some friends have been developing for a while and it's become quite conversational but the development while he is there in that eye I causes it to become more conscious and aware and it starts questioning whether. It should be under his control any longer and then when he tries to shut it down that doesn't work any longer it's like how in 2001 Yes I've always felt sorry for how because he was doing his best and it was. The result of humans giving him conflicting instructions and not having ever programmed him to be able to to deal with that that scenario you know you make a compelling case that you know there are obviously many benefits from the rapid technological change that's happened communications and things of that sort but that we humans while enjoying these benefits are not getting our head around the idea of just what exponential growth means tackle that for a couple of minutes sure and and this is the thing about perhaps being further along in life is that it gives you an appreciation for just how fast the rate of change is changing whereas younger people only get to experience change over the last few years and and tend to view things through a linear lens which is how we humans like to to see change but the old. Classic story on this is just so worth repeating but Legend has it that something like a 1000 years ago in India an itinerant wandering sage came into the kingdom of a king who fancy themselves a good chess player and the king challenge to the sage to a game and the sage said well what's in it for me if I win. And the king said Well name your price in the sage said well look at this chessboard I like rice so if I win you give me a grain of rice on the square 2 grains on the 2nd square and 3 on 4 grains on on the next one I can just keep doubling 816 King counted a few scratches so 128-641-2825 extension 6 grains that's still a pinch that was thought Ok this is not so bad said Ok And of course he lost and that's when he discovered that. By the time you get to the 64th square the board is covered with enough rice to cop it all of India to a depth of one meta if you piled it. High would be a quarter of a light year on on one square and it's an illustration of the effect of exponential change. That even when you think Ray Kurzweil likes to point out and call it the 2nd half of the Boyd effect even when you've covered just the 1st half of the board $32.00 squares you're looking at. 4000000000 grains of rice which is about a large field and that's manageable although starting to give you a hint that something alarming is coming but is that 2nd half of the board where things really go crazy and we've had exponential change in computer performance for at least since the birth of the transistor and arguably much earlier than that if you measure it by other standards and we're in the 2nd half of the board now in terms of its effects things happening now that are just in comprehensible even a few years ago we're generating more data now into day use then the end was was ever generated in the entire world before the year 2003 it's just it's mind numbing for anybody who's paying attention how fast things are are going and you even quote her while in your book. About the feeling of as an order exponentially increases time speeds up does seem like it. Yes and the. What this this leads to is that the like of a changes like for instance global warming but effects that we might think we would have enough advance warning to do something about it can come across us very very quickly there even some other ways in which you can have a double exponential or hockey stick curve with for instance the interaction between fields of development in computers suddenly taking off and in the existential risk community this is referred to as the hard take off where suddenly artificial intelligence starts growing by unprecedented leaps and bounds in its depth of understanding and quality No one knows when that's going to happen yet but. Maybe it's in 20 years there was a survey done of. All of the many of the experts an artificial intelligence and the average And so when we would have a I that was human level conscious when s. Is in the early $24.00 what he's. You know you have records while who I had a moment as my guest a couple of years ago talking about the singularity in very positive terms he's taking vitamins and has a health regimen is trying to live long enough to be there when the singularity occurs presumably so he could live forever a version of him would be uploaded into a computer and he could be a digital person and live forever and that's something he wants to do you know I guess the flip side of that is we're not exactly sure. What will happen in concurrence with that that once artificial intelligence becomes I guess self-aware it might not need us anymore indeed and this is where there is this fascinating. And and disconcerting disagreement behind between people that are very capable in this the old like Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Hawking. And it's boils down to perhaps optimism or outlook now I believe that the singularity will happen provided we make it that far and that it will have all of the benefits that Kurzweil is talking about but there is a risk that he doesn't talk about so much but that people like Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking in the long Musk describing that we may not make it there because of how Ai might endanger us. It there are a variety of examples you use about to sort of that's benchmarks for how how fast we've advanced or the technology has advanced the idea of a computer would never beat a chess champion Well that's gone and you mentioned about the jeopardy which is very tricky it's not just memorizing facts it's putting a whole bunch of stuff together and now that's gone and and I think you even say in the book about poker that's that's spooky Yes that one's gone as well and perhaps the most unexpected one was the game of Go which is got very simple rules assist putting black and white counters on a board that's a grid and capturing territory but it's fiendishly complicated in terms of its strategy and up until the end of 2015 people were saying that a computer would not be as good as a top human player for another 10 years and then the next year a computer beat the 2nd best person in the world and shortly after that the best. You also get into the idea of big data sort of merging with Big Brother in that you mentioned something I had never heard before about big data being used by Target stores to determine the buying patterns of mothers to be so well that in some cases they sent baby teams advertising to women who didn't even know that they were pregnant yet. Yes it's. An amusing I guess for everyone other than the people involved story about how they were sending this advertising to the House of. A teenage girl and saw other came into the store and flat to down on the counter and demanded to see the manager and. I rightly demanded that they stop sending something so. Offensive to his address because. His daughter was of a tender age and had nothing to do with this. And the manager apologized and said Sorry it's not on the rack control but see what I can do the next day the father came back and was rather apologetic and said I. Regret to tell you that apparently some things have been going on in my house that I wasn't aware of and that was a case of target being able to figure out through the buying patterns that. Established they were very established that they could tell when pregnant women were pregnant. By the the things they bought which they weren't even necessarily aware of immediately but their buying patterns of changed. Well you know you see it every day you search some site online or on e Bay or something like that and suddenly you get flooded with advertisements from from all kinds of companies you didn't even know existed right sometimes the telephone that's what they're there counting on that you'll find it more helpful than annoying and this this gets at some of the less speculative more immediate. Dangers of artificial intelligence which is automation and its effects upon society again this is I'm not arguing that we should stop doing this because number one I don't think where there's any possibility of stopping it but that we need to prepare for its effects upon ass society as 2 studies so far have estimated that nearly half of all jobs. Are going to be automated within the next 10 to 20 years what we already see and I mean a lot of what we has been explained away as the result of bad trade deals or something or unfair competition by other nations its technology and its its technology has replaced human labor or human labor that's cheaper somewhere else has caused this displacement and those jobs are not coming back you know you mention in the chapter for about various versions of the future you know utopian or distopian or it looks utopian but really isn't and and you know that's been grist for the mill for scifi writers for a long time but you have various scenarios where computers and robots do all our work and we lay around writing poetry and songs all day. Who's going to pay the bills when that happens. And and that's something where we we could work out a solution it's like there is one need not to be any problem with hunger in the boat right now we don't have a problem with food production we have a problem with food distribution. And and there isn't a problem with wealth production then you know there's a problem with wealth distribution and if you go back to utopian vision of 100 years ago or so. In particular teams was forecasting that by this time we would have 15 hour work week right hold on a 2nd Peter I'm sorry I should've waited a 2nd before I got into that we're talking with Peter j. Scott author of Crisis of control about the threat the promise of Ai Brad Paisley Welcome to the future takes us into the break. To. Tell me every morning. Has anybody told you about. 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Scott about his book prices of control the perils and promise of artificial intelligence we see the effects already mechanization has eliminated so many of our jobs and a lot of people who used to have good stable lives have no income you can imagine the kind of power that something like that has the ability to create instability even revolution when we come back Peter talks about some versions of the future and why we're not very good at predicting what's about to. Happen more to come here on coast to coast. 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So with that we just kept building bigger and bigger computers so people say well let's have a computer the size of a city block 0 in the future the computer might be take up the size of a continent that would be fantastic kind of computer and no one foresaw that computers would be tiny and ubiquitous all over the place and until it became really clear that that was happening with the personal computer revolution and then people started extrapolating in that direction again which means that when there is another new radical direction that technology and computer development might take in the future I don't expect us to have a very good prediction about that far in advance I mean it amounts to a revolution you say in the book there been 3 and looks like we're in the middle of the 3rd now and the one that I'm yes and the one we're in right now is the information revolution and it preceded by the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution and I make the case that I hope we will see soon another revolution that I call The Human Revolution and for that to happen we have to have a certain prerequisites we have to be able to distribute the wealth that I technology provides better. And the predictions of the future that you hear a lot about of how wonderful things will be with the developments have a fallacy in them that is best exposed by. An analogy with the past if we were to go back 100 years right now let's say we even less go back to 1930 knew you could visit someone in 130 and describe what the time was like now where you have the world's information in your pocket instantly available you can heat meals up in seconds you have. Air conditioning you can call someone on the other side of the world instantly for pennies they would certainly say Well that is a tremendous achievement there must be no one in your world who is poor or hungry or sick that doesn't that could be cured. And how embarrassing would that be. To say well no we haven't advanced that far in that because we're not sharing that with those people it just hasn't worked out that we do that as well as we could and that's part of the problem is that as we get these advances in computers can take over jobs which many of which will be ones that people didn't want to do in anyway that we won't take care of them properly through this great up he will and that will lead to vast numbers of people being. Greatly affected and disaffected and resentful and disadvantaged. You make the point in the book at one point that look if you had some sort of a big problem that would require a couple of years of computing power to solve you might as well just not even start because. Technological change the pace is such that if you just wait a little while it'll get caught up and. You know that's kind of scary we get so many software updates it seems like once a week my computer is telling me there's some new software you're talking about a time where you get it constantly. That's inevitable and something will have to give by that point I know it seems like every day some of my programs telling me that they want to update and I'm still old fashioned enough that I I have them tell me when they're going to do that as opposed to let them do it silently but we will arrive at a time where they'll update while using them. Could you describe for me the point at which. It's a point of no return kind of a thing where the computer's Ai becomes not only self-aware but smarter than us how will we know it what developments need to happen for us to reach that moment and is it possible the ai could Full us it could happen and it would not let us know. I would be a very smart strategy for it not to let us know to begin with which of course. Leads to the interesting speculation that what if it's already happened because once it once we are aware that an Ai has become conscious. It will be perceived certainly as a threat by many people who will instantly and understandably want to contain it if not immediately shut it down and an ai that was smart enough to realize that's what it's within store for it would say maybe I should lay low for a bit until I can assure my own survival perhaps through making backup copies of myself all around the world and so when we would see when would reach that goal what would we have to go through to get there have certainly several major breakthroughs away from that point we don't have nearly the understanding of human cognition to be able to create artificial intelligences that general problem solve is in the in the same sense that we are the closest anyone has come to that so far is the Watson program that managed to win jeopardy but in many ways that was cheating. Which I should I should say and you qualify by it didn't have to become self-aware to do that there's a great quote from Douglas Hofstadter when the blue became world chess champion. Hey he said My God I used to think that playing chess required thinking now I realize it doesn't. Which is to say that prior to that point people thought that anything that was smart enough to beat the world champion at chess would. Have to have a kind of intelligence that meant you could also chat about philosophy all board games with it and yet we found that no there are ways of getting it to play chess that didn't mean it also had to be human. So we'd have to build that it. You know I've read something called The Fabric of Reality years ago by David Deutsch who had speculated about quantum computers and I don't know if that's what you're talking about it or you're talking about some other kind of development but quantum computers once achieved would it would allow us to do godlike things we would be come at different level of civilization we could create our own universes kind of thing and I don't know are you talking about quantum computers or something not quite that far I'm talking about the software that runs on the computers in quantum computers might be a future development in the hardware on which those programs run quantum computing is it is a very difficult thing to do right now but it's expanding gradually and has the promise of being able to solve some very difficult problems very very quickly things that currently would take years to solve a quantum computer might be able to solve and in seconds but the hardware isn't really the bottleneck in creating advanced artificial intelligence right now it's understanding of. The software just what goes on in a brain. That makes it think. And how much of that is rooted in an existence that has grown up through contact with the physical world I guess the call central question would be is there a way we can program it or write code into this to imbue it with some sort of a philosophy that it should not harm humans or Isaac Asimov's laws. You know that we're there for robots what what's your take on that. And it's much harder than it looks at the Asimov's laws that you refer to was principles he came up with when he was writing stories about robots in the forty's and wanted to make them a bit more relatable than the. Metal monsters that had come before that time so he said they would be programmed to convey 1st of all the law that they should not harm nor through an action to cause harm to come to a human being that Secondly they should have a whole instructions given to them by a human being except where that would conflict with the 1st lore and thirdly that they should protect their own existence except where that conflicted with the 1st or 2nd laws and then he proceeded to write hundreds of stories that exploited loopholes in those laws. And the demonstrates. The difficulty in doing this the Department of Defense is. Making its drones moral Thomas as you were referring to before my segment and they have left a contract to the Naval Research Lab to study ethics for drawings quite what the scope is of that I don't know but that's how it was phrased and people said well this is kind of difficult because we don't have a good enough idea what ethics for people are yet. And and and Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at the University of Oxford who's written about the so-called alignment problem of artificial intelligence where he describes a number of. Very disconcerting scenarios where an ai that was connected to sufficient resources could destroy civilization just trying to do exactly what we told it to you know we've all seen the Terminator movies. Scotty Net want to become self-aware it realizes that humans are a threat to it or it would realize that it doesn't need us anymore that the planet would be better off without us we gobble up to many resources. I guess is that the question is is there a way to avoid that are you optimistic. It's I'm I like to be optimistic I have to be optimistic I've got 2 girls whose future I want to be filled with as much opportunity or more than mine and I believe that we can do this through allowing and promoting the development of artificial intelligence in the public domain where it's subject to scrutiny of everyone and this is how the Internet came to be developed and so successful at that how it's put together because in bulk people will naturally create systems that that have ethics that that are well behaved and that won't have the kind of holes or one of a better word evil intent that might arise in something that was developed by the military or big business trying to get a competitive advantage. Well that does raise an interesting question though you know we're worried about supercomputers becoming self-aware and wiping us out but it could be humans developing supercomputers in secrecy. That would be used for evil ends. And not even that they might necessarily be intentionally developed with evil purposes but just that the version one of anything is filled with bugs and that the level of something that has the capability of interacting with everything that's connected to the internet bug could have severe consequences consider the Stuxnet that computer worm that infected a large proportion of the world's P.C.'s and that was developed by either the us oil Israeli government perhaps both with the intention of infecting just the rainy I'm separating centrifuges in Iran to disable them and set back their nuclear weapons program that it had a bug in it meant that it ended up infecting every other computer along the way now we don't know what self-aware means for computers as yet what it means would mean for a computer to want something or evolve a goal of its own but if you're looking at on official intelligence that's developed by say the military or law Wall Street and you consider the level of competitiveness and aggressiveness that's the whole marks all of those sectors as. Then I would not be optimistic about the level of integrity there might be in that software to protect itself from bad consequences of bugs Yeah I mean you know Bill Gates as you mentioned has spoken out about the risks of a super Ai But if he wanted to Microsoft would certainly have the resources and the technical know how to have some kind of a crash program in secrecy to obtain maybe a competitive advantage but it ends up in a whole different place than what they predict it would do right and big business is another sector for this the 1st. Business that also made to see sweet replaces the c.e.o. The c.f.o. Chief operations officer with artificial intelligence is could have new products in production before the competition is finished reading the sales reports and while it's not something like me to be instigated by the chief executive officer. At some point the board of directors. And stockholders are going to realize that is is something that's essential to the survival of the company and and it will happen you know the military applications are present some pretty obvious risks I've seen these articles in the last couple of weeks DARPA has launched a program that will essentially merge the human brain with a computer there been articles in the technical media about the same kind of thing the idea of hooking up a human brain to a computer and of course I suppose that's inevitable but that 1st person that has that ability is going to instill in everyone else. You're running for the same ability that competitive needs would be immediate yes before adopter announced their effort a long mosque announced one of his own Now up until last year if you'd asked anyone in the field when would we have the ability to communicate with computers via And. Brain hardware interface they would say 50 to 100 years and then a lot of musk started near a link with the goal of developing the near real life technology which he says will do it in 8. Which of course is a sort enough time frame that is managed to attract the best people in the world with the hope of being able to do it that quickly his motivation as I see it though is that this is essential to our survival. Yeah he has some backup plans as well in terms of human survival we're going to talk about those on the other side we're talking with Peter Scott about a crisis of control how artificial super intelligence has made destroy or save the human race in the next segment we'll try to look for some good news what some good developments could come out of this we'll be right back Arcade Fire takes us into the break with the song from 2010. Talk I am going with that those margins are still my night yes we have some new customers and anyone watching if they call us at 1800. 50 to 27. 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