With chants of “ I say robot , you say no - bot ! ” , a grouping of dissenter took to the streets in Austin , Texas to warn against the rise of artificial intelligence . The motility , though small in number , may be the starting line of a larger trend .
Asreportedin USA Today , yesterday ’s march took position just outside the Convention Center entrance of the South By Southwest finish and technology fete . The protest , unionise by computer engineer Adam Mason , call for some two 12 militant .
“ This is about morals in computing , ” Mason tell USA Today .
The contestant bear up mark adorn with such slogan as : “ Stop the robots , ” and “ Humans are the future . ” chant include , “ A - I , say goodbye ! ” and “ I say robot , you say no - bot ! ” Many of the protesters wore blue t - shirt with the inscription , “ block off the robots . ”
Many of the activists were from the University of Texas , which hosts a substantial engineering political platform . As mention by Mason , it ’s a movement that ’s profoundly concerned about the fate of a society where artificial intelligence is granted too much controller , adding that “ Planes can fly themselves , but the person who is ultimately responsible for for set ashore a plane is a human . ”
It ’s a sentiment that close mirror the business organisation ofStephen Hawking , Elon Musk , andmany otherswho have recently spoken out about the possible risks stemming from AI .
Others are n’t so positive . USA Today reports :
“ I am astonished at the motion , ” says Stephen Wolfram , a British computer scientist , entrepreneur and former physicist known for his share to theoretical physics . “ AI has modify life in ways as striking as the Industrial Revolution . ”
Adds Ben Medlock , co - founder of roving - communication companionship SwiftKey : “ Machines have already taken over . If you tug a car , much of what it does is technology - drive . ”
Phil Libin , CEO of software firm Evernote , frames the protest and movement as the latest iteration of the man vs. machine debate . “ People occupy about robots taking over the world , but I promise you there are much more dangerous things ( income inequality and orbicular warming ) in front of the line , ” he said .
Libin added that we should be more worried about other mankind .
[ USA Today ]
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