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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The authors of a study warn that under conditions identified in their work, an \u201cexistential catastrophe\u201d is quite likely. The odds of advanced artificial intelligence becoming a threat to humanity may be a bit too high for comfort, authors of a new study published in AI Magazine suggest.<\/p>\n

In their study, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Australian National University postulate that if a sufficiently advanced AI were to be provided a \u201clarge reward to indicate that something about the world is satisfactory to us, it may hypothesize that what satisfied us was the sending of the reward itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AI may then attempt to intervene in the \u201cprovision of their reward,\u201d which may lead to disastrous consequences, as the AI\u2019s quest to \u201cmaximize the probability that it receives its maximal reward every timestep\u201d would result in that entity competing with humanity for the available energy.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Vice\u2019s Motherboard, Cohen explained that while he would be \u201cextremely uncertain about what would happen\u201d if we were talking about a world with infinite resources, the same cannot be said about our reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a world with finite resources, there’s unavoidable competition for these resources,” he said. “And if you’re in a competition with something capable of outfoxing you at every turn, then you shouldn’t expect to win. And the other key part is that it would have an insatiable appetite for more energy to keep driving the probability closer and closer.”<\/p>\n

The researchers note that almost all of the assumptions they made while exploring the scenario in question are \u201ccontestable or conceivably avoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. The authors of a study warn that under conditions identified in their work, an \u201cexistential catastrophe\u201d is quite likely. The odds of advanced artificial intelligence becoming a threat to humanity may be a bit too high for comfort, authors of a new study published in AI Magazine suggest. 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