In the book "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era" by James Barrat, artificial intelligence is viewed as something that could possibly become a dangerous threat to humankind in the future due to its lack of human morals. Barrat explores this further by explaining how scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence has surpassed the intelligence of the average human. It can perform the actions of an everyday human, but at the same time is endowed with all that humans know. AI is seen as about one thousand times smarter than the average human. What worries Barrat is what the machines will decide to do with this huge amount of knowledge. As a living machine, it would have the basic instincts of self preservation, and self improvement, which are both automatic in all things that have the ability to think. Lacking human emotion and the ability to know what is correct in society, there is a possibility that it would do irrational things to keep itself safe, and go to extensive measures to improve itself. Emphasizing how dangerous the AI might become, Barrat explains how the scientists would have to be extremely and almost impossibly precise in their programming so that they would have total control over the machine they are creating. It obviously would be alive and be able to think for itself, and because of this we must limit its independence so that it is not able to pull away from human control. "Humans have built atom bombs, imagine what a being one thousand times smarter could create." Barrat stresses how the science fiction idea of a robot controlled society isn't so distant anymore. If humans really have the power to create this AI, then imagine what machines the AI itself could create. With this knowledge, it could have the power to take over the world and as Barrat states, "...perhaps even the universe." He concludes by saying how it is just much simpler to stay away from creating AI, and avoid all the danger that comes with it.

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