Containing superintelligent AI is impossible, researchers find
“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Ever since the release of Stan Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey” more than 50 years ago, the sentient supercomputer HAL-9000 has embodied the fear of a superintelligence computer that emancipates itself from human oversight in order to complete its assignment. In this classic movie, HAL was depicted as turning increasingly neurotic. But today, powerful artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept, and the idea that a superintelligent computer might wrest control from humans to fulfill the tasks it has been set with the highest...
