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We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI.
Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some
of the damage done to the natural world by the last one industrialisation.
The Centre for the Future of Intelligence will initially focus on seven distinct projects in
the first three-year phase of its work, reaching out to brilliant researchers and
connecting them and their ideas to the challenges of making the best of AI. Among the
initial research topics are: Science, value and the future of intelligence; Policy and
responsible innovation; Autonomous weapons prospects for regulation and Trust and
transparency.
The Academic Director of the Centre, and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at
Cambridge, Huw Price, said: The creation of machine intelligence is likely to be a once-
in-a-planets-lifetime event. It is a future we humans face together. Our aim is to build a
broad community with the expertise and sense of common purpose to make this future
the best it can be.
Many researchers now take seriously the possibility that intelligence equal to our own
will be created in computers within this century. Freed of biological constraints, such as
limited memory and slow biochemical processing speeds, machines may eventually
become more intelligent than we are with profound implications for us all.
AI pioneer Professor Maggie Boden (University of Sussex) sits on the Centres advisory
board and spoke at this evenings launch. She said: AI is hugely exciting. Its practical
applications can help us to tackle important social problems, as well as easing many
tasks in everyday life. And it has advanced the sciences of mind and life in fundamental
ways. But it has limitations, which present grave dangers given uncritical use. CFI aims
to pre-empt these dangers, by guiding AI development in human-friendly ways.
Recent landmarks such as self-driving cars or a computer game winning at the game of
Go, are signs of whats to come, added Professor Hawking. The rise of powerful AI will
either be the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know
which. The research done by this centre is crucial to the future of our civilisation and of
our species.
It is a great pleasure to be here today to open this new Centre. We spend a great deal
of time studying history, which, lets face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So it is a
welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.
The potential benefits of creating intelligence are huge. We cannot predict what we
might achieve, when our own minds are amplified by AI. Perhaps with the tools of this
new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the
natural world by the last one industrialisation. And surely we will aim to finally
eradicate disease and poverty. Every aspect of our lives will be transformed. In short,
success in creating AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation.
But it could also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. Alongside the
benefits, AI will also bring dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for
the few to oppress the many. It will bring great disruption to our economy. And in the
future, AI could develop a will of its own a will that is in conflict with ours.
In short, the rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to
happen to humanity. We do not yet know which. That is why in 2014, I and a few
others called for more research to be done in this area. I am very glad that someone
was listening to me!
The research done by this centre is crucial to the future of our civilisation and of our
species. I wish you the best of luck!
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Subjects
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Philosophy
Politics
Democracy
Weapons
Machine Learning
Poverty
People
Stephen Cave
Huw Price
Zoubin Ghahramani
Chris Abell
Stephen Hawking
Places
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
Trinity Hall
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Leverhulme Trust
University of Oxford
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