The Real Reason to be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence | Peter Haas | TEDxDirigo

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Published 2017-12-15
A robotics researcher afraid of robots, Peter Haas, invites us into his world of understand where the threats of robots and artificial intelligence lie. Before we get to Sci-Fi robot death machines, there's something right in front of us we need to confront - ourselves. Peter is the Associate Director of the Brown University Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative. He was the Co-Founder and COO of XactSense, a UAV manufacturer working on LIDAR mapping and autonomous navigation. Prior to XactSense, Peter founded AIDG – a small hardware enterprise accelerator in emerging markets. Peter received both TED and Echoing Green fellowships. He has been a speaker at TED Global, The World Bank, Harvard University and other venues. He holds a Philosophy B.A. from Yale. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

All Comments (21)
  • He's warning the people, by educating them. The audience thinks it's entertainment but that's what he's doing( educating them) to open their eyes!
  • The most true thing he said in the whole video - "you may not care about this because you arent facing criminal sentencing". That sentence sums up most human sentiment, and its sad.
  • @markmarsh27
    That was BRILLIANT ... and 4 years later, which is centuries in terms of AI evolution, he's still EXACTLY right.
  • @jgrab1
    "The AI algorithm conflated the absence or presence of snow with the absence or presence of a wolf." —That explains a lot of my Amazon "For You" recommendations.
  • Once you've seen enough of human nature, you'll know that there is absolutely no chance that humans are not going to develope AI until it gets out of control.
  • @vanhalenps4
    Video works fine on 1.5x speed.. Use your extra 4 minutes wisely
  • @Ratplague707
    Don't fear the robots, fear the people who OWN the robots. Fear the people who OWN the data.
  • @suesheification
    This is exactly why I fear people more than AI. Most people might as well be AI with their lack of ability to critically reason.
  • @ahyaok100
    "Even the developers who work on this stuff have no idea what it's doing." So true.
  • @user-qr3pr7is7q
    A man of reason, I'm glad somebody in the robotics field (GETS IT) !!!
  • @meteor2012able
    In the 70s when I was college student a statistics professor lectured about "error". This lecture changed my life for the better in ways far removed from statistics. Of course, the definition of error commonly depends on subjective matters....And, that is what worries me, but not necessarily you. AI worries "me".... but what do I know?
  • @monkeymind6242
    Very good. People should listen to this now. It is getting crazier out there, and we did not pause to think of the consequences.
  • @cupofkoa
    This is the exact type of thinking we need to go forward. Very sensible and thoughtful.
  • @jpheals7185
    Great talk my friend ! "What we must fear is our own laziness !" That says it all.
  • @aybee63
    3:55 and there's the rub! "Even the developers who work on this stuff, have no idea what it's doing!"
  • @garyclouse4164
    A few years ago, I worked with a commercial ai package that used a neural network simulation to implement fuzzy logic in handwriting recognition.. The first thing I noticed was that, by giving the computer the ability to make educated guesses, the computers also gained the ability to make mistakes. So the AI algorithm could be tuned by specifying a confidence level. If the AI's confidence was below that level, it would request human intervention.
  • @kurtjensen7264
    Best words spoken in Jurassic Park by Jeffrey “ you kept wondering if you could but did not ask your self if you should!”
  • @kaiyote4717
    Great talk. Finally someone able to break down the specific issues with these systems
  • He was speaking so much truth and light and look where we are in 2023
  • Hands down one of the most terrifying talks i have ever heard. So many facets to take into account with AI, all human.