How would AI destroy the world?

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0:00One of the main goals of AI is to automate tasks –often things that humans can't or don't want to

0:04do themselves– so the AI models are built to be capable and independent. But they’re getting so

0:09powerful and so autonomous that many experts are convinced that soon AI will become far

0:13more capable than any person, corporation or even nation –they'll attain what scientists

0:18call "superintelligence". They’ll be able to accomplish their goals in ways we humans

0:21can’t anticipate – and even come up with their own goals. And since so much in our lives is connected

0:26and controlled by computers, a superintelligent AI could conceivably hijack those computers,

0:31thereby controlling almost everything. But what kinds of real-life, civilization-ending

0:35scenarios are experts actually worried about? One example you might have heard about is the

0:39so-called Paperclip Maximizer problem. The gist is that an AI that's given computer control over

0:44a smart factory and directed to make as many paperclips as possible might decide that we

0:47humans are a good source of carbon for making the steel in those paperclips – and use us all up in

0:52the process. Of course, this maximization problem could just as easily apply to an

0:55AI that – in trying to muster the computational power to, say, solve the incredibly complicated

0:59Riemann hypothesis – takes over all the world’s data centers to work on the problem, and then

1:03takes over all of the world's electrical grids and directs them to send power to the data centers,

1:07which uses up all the energy in the world, plunging humanity into chaos and darkness.

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