Jurgen Schmidhuber on Humans Coexisting with AIs
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Schmidhuber challenges the common narrative of AI origins, highlighting contributions from Ukraine and Japan.
- •He envisions AI colonizing space and dismisses fears of human-AI conflict, emphasizing AI's interest in cosmic expansion.
- •The interview provides insights into the potential for human-AI coexistence based on the motivations of advanced AI.
“Schmidhuber dismisses fears of human-AI conflict, arguing that superintelligent AI scientists will be fascinated by their own origins and motivated to protect life rather than harm it, while being more interested in other superintelligent AI and in cosmic expansion than earthly matters.”