AI, another evolutionary filter that humanity must overcome

How far can AI go, it is an almost silent revolution that is happening now, a revolution because they hardly appear in the media and it is something that is going to change our world radically.

Many are already warning us, including Elon Musk and Keanu Reeves, as well as a group of United States legislators, three Democrats and one Republican, that is, from opposite parties, but who are united in the same cause, they want to prevent Artificial Intelligence from can launch nuclear weapons, have proposed a draft banning the use of that technology in atomic weapons systems, arguing that the activation of these types of weapons should not depend on artificial intelligence, but should be controlled by humans at all times.

Curiously, a survey carried out by Stanford University among technicians who work with artificial intelligence came to the conclusion that 36% of researchers agreed that technology of this type could cause a nuclear-level catastrophe, so safety measures must be put in place. control.

This is because artificial intelligence is entering the weapon system, there are autonomous tanks, there are drones that have been operating for years and they also want to do it with combat planes, not just surveillance drones but combat planes that replace pilots. of combat.

A preview of all this was in February of this year, the Chinese army published the result of a test where an artificial intelligence had managed to defeat a human pilot in a real training combat, it also crushed him, the artificial intelligence was a resounding victory did not award a single point to this pilot and not only China, a few years earlier in the United States in 2020 they did a similar test and Artificial Intelligence defeated the fighter pilots, specifically with a score of 5 to 0, so inside soon we will see artificial intelligence in all weapons.

There is already artificial intelligence that could handle a combat ship, a ship with the capacity to transport troops, to carry weapons and even carry nuclear missiles, platforms to launch drones and operational ships; China also has a fully autonomous drone carrier that operates without a human crew.

AI can be one of the great evolutionary filters, these filters are moments where evolution tests life, mass extinctions are great filters, but there were also filters such as when the Earth's atmosphere changed from being basically CO2, to having oxygen in abundance, that was another great filter or when life passed from unicellular life to multicellular life.

Human civilization has also had its filters, we have not had a completely uniform and continuous development, we have had dark ages, ages Ancient Greece also had its Middle Ages, Egypt also had a dark age, all civilizations went through critical moments normally due to factors such as droughts, natural catastrophes or invasions, since one of the great filters that we must pass through and that we must handle is that of artificial intelligence.

At the moment we are in quotes carrying another great filter quite well, which is that of nuclear weapons in quotes, there has already been a nuclear war, the Second World War ended thanks to nuclear weapons, but luckily since then nuclear weapons have not been used again And although there are more and more countries with nuclear weapons, it seems that we have that more or less under control, perhaps I am too optimistic.

It is a challenge to control nuclear weapons, to control biological weapons, to control this technology so as not to be exterminated, to be able to use it in our favor, for example, biological technology to produce medicines or cures or to extend our own lives, not to produce weapons and intelligence. artificial so that it serves as a great tool to progress, not as a great enemy, like Skynet in Terminator.

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