A famous concern in AI is known as the paperclip maximizer problem. AI pursues one goal and accidentally wipes us out. I revisit this matter and break the myth involved.

WHAT do paper clips have to do with the end of the world? More than you might think, if you ask researchers trying to make sure that artificial intelligence acts in our interests.. This goes back ...

The idea of a paperclip-making AI didn’t originate with Lantz. Most people ascribe it to Nick Bostrom , a philosopher at Oxford University and the author of the book Superintelligence .

The concept of Ctrl Alt Deal took root from a philosophical problem: the "paperclip problem" to be exact (the company that created you is even called Paperclip International).

One prescient thought from Bostrom way back in 2003 was around how AI could go wrong by trying to serve specific groups, say a paperclip manufacturer or any "owner" of the AI, rather than humanity ...

The risk is that the AI works diligently towards this goal without any of the common-sense human intelligence would use. It therefore ends up converting the entire world and its resources into one ...

The AI Control Problem is what keeps AI ethics up at night, for which paths to solving the pressing issue are discussed, along with examples from AI-based self-driving cars.