📝The Myth of AGI. How the illusion of Artificial General Intelligence distorts and distracts digital governance

► Référence complète : M. Mueller, The Myth of AGI. How the illusion of Artificial General Intelligence distorts and distracts digital governance, Internet Governance Project (IGP) White Paper, n°11, mai 2024, 20 p.

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► Résumé de l'article (fait par l'auteur) : "The claim that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) poses a risk of human extinction is largely responsible for the urgency surrounding AI governance. This paper reviews and critically evaluates the AGI-related literature in computer science, economics and philosophy to understand the assumptions and logic underlying claims that AI can threaten human survival. The review identifies three inter-related fallacies underlying AGI doomer scenarios: a) the idea that a machine can have a “general intelligence;” b) anthropomorphism, or the attribution of autonomous goals, desires and self-preservation motives to human-built machines; and c) the assumption that the superior calculating intelligence of an AGI will give it unlimited power over physical resources and social institutions. The paper characterizes these assumptions as unrealistic and exposes the lack of logic and empirical evidence in the doomer scenarios. Evaluating the AGI construct is important from a public policy perspective because of the myth's enormous influence on the way governments, industry and the public approach digital governance. The idea of an all-powerful autonomous AGI misdirects policy interventions toward precautionary regulation of the design or production of all AI applications, while diverting our attention from more mundane, yet realistic risks posed by specific AI uses and users. The myth of existential risk also encourages governments to attempt to assert control over the entire digital ecosystem in ways that stifle competition and innovation and centralize power.".

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