%0 Journal Article
%T Hopes and fears for intelligent machines in fiction and reality
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%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0020-9
%X This paper categorizes some of the fundamental hopes and fears expressed in imaginings of artificial intelligence (AI), based on a survey of 300 fictional and non-fictional works. The categories are structured into four dichotomies, each comprising a hope and a parallel fear, mediated by the notion of control. These are: the hope for much longer lives (¡®immortality¡¯) and the fear of losing one¡¯s identity (¡®inhumanity¡¯); the hope for a life free of work (¡®ease¡¯), and the fear of becoming redundant (¡®obsolescence¡¯); the hope that AI can fulfil one¡¯s desires (¡®gratification¡¯), alongside the fear that humans will become redundant to each other (¡®alienation¡¯); and the hope that AI offers power over others (¡®dominance¡¯), with the fear that it will turn against us (¡®uprising¡¯). This Perspective further argues that these perceptions of AI¡¯s possibilities, which may be quite detached from the reality of the technology, can influence how it is developed, deployed and regulated
%U https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-019-0020-9