San Francisco museum launches memorial to imagined end of humanity
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San Francisco: ChatGPT has truly propelled the AI race into motion and how every other tech company is trying to establish itself as a major player in the field of artificial intelligence. But, there are concerns about the consequences and AI's implications on the job market.
Many worries that AI will cause many people to lose their jobs. Others think the AI-powered robots will take over the world in a sci-fi movie style. Working on this idea, a museum in San Francisco has launched an exhibit dedicated to the imagined end of humanity.
The memorial cum exhibit is called the "Misalignment Museum" and it starts with the words "sorry for killing most of humanity". Audrey Kim, the show's curator, said the concept of the museum is that we are in a post-apocalyptic world where artificial general intelligence has already destroyed most of humanity. The disturbing mix of comics shows that the AI later realises that its actions were bad and creates "a type of memorial to the humans."
Kim is fond of a sculpture called "Paperclip Embrace" which shows two humans holding each other. It is made of paperclips and refers to a metaphor by philosopher Nick Bostrom. He, in the 2000s, imagined what would happen if AI was programmed to create paper clips, reported AFP. "It could become more and more powerful, and constantly optimise itself to achieve its one and only goal, to the point of destroying all of humanity in order to flood the world with paper clips."
The goal of the exhibit is to spark conversations on the dangers of going too far, too quickly. "There have been lots of conversations about the safety of AI in pretty niche intellectual tech circles on Twitter and I think that's very important. But those conversations are not as easily accessible to the general public as concepts that you can see or feel."
She further said that the work on the exhibit started only five months ago. Still, many of the technologies presented at the museum seem "almost primitive".