Movies portray AI as the villain but it is up to humans how to shape it, Manolis Kellis, Professor of AI and Computer Science at MIT, tells Al Arabiya News.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00There's, of course, a lot of sci-fi movies
00:03that are painting the worst possible scenarios with AI,
00:06where AI is invading every aspect of our privacy
00:09and controlling us and manipulating us
00:12for its own benefit.
00:14But this is a lot of anthropomorphizing of AI.
00:18This is projecting a lot of our evolutionary quirks
00:21that got us where we are.
00:23This egocentricity and this self-preservation
00:30and this competition and this sort of protection of kin
00:35at the detriment of others
00:38that were absolutely necessary to our own evolution
00:43and to us making it so far.
00:45But AI doesn't have to have these needs.
00:50AI doesn't have a self.
00:52AI doesn't have this evolutionary strive for survival,
00:58for domination, for ruling, and so on and so forth.
01:02And it is up to us to choose whether we want to program it
01:05into the AI or not.