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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN A.I.
The Myth of
Man vs. Machine
Why AI will
not end
mankind, but
we still need
to prepare for
challenges
Marco Gercke is a global is quoted in this regard. The conflicts. The willingness to trust
thinker and writer focussing discussion about the impact of current suggestions made by artificial
on Global Security, developments for security and society intelligence once it surpassed our
Cybersecurity and AI. For in general is important, especially capability to verify the “decision
more than ten years he the future of labor, but it is one of making process” is one of them.
has advised governments, the unlikely scenarios that AI will end
international organisations mankind. The following experiment highlights
and the private sector. He is the challenge: various tech companies
Director of the Cybercrime The impact of global warming and are currently developing AI systems
Research Institute, an armed conflicts pose a significantly that are able to negotiate. To verify
independent global think greater risk. The equally oversimplified the abilities of AI, twelve professional
tank. response to the oversimplified negotiators were invited to negotiate
question is that if AI and humans a fictitious trade agreement. It took
Glorious future or the end end up in a conflict about resources, a full day. Having got this human
of mankind? Terminator computer-controlled robots with AI benchmark two AI systems carried
or Knight Rider? It is can “leave” planet Earth and exploit out the same negotiation. It took
surprising how often the discussion the resources of other planets while them less than a second to carry out
about chances and risks of mankind will have significantly more the task and as both humans and
artificial intelligence ends up with challenges to adopt. machines referred largely to standard
oversimplified stereotypes and how contractual clauses the agreements
often the Hollywood movie Terminator The discussion about the ultimate reached by machines looked almost
conflict distracts from more likely identical to the one drafted by their
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