Artificial intelligence has rightly been considered a potential threat to human survival on Earth. It is generally regarded from the perspective of posing a threat as a super-individual CPU equivalent to a brain yet the community of artificial intelligence poses as much or a greater risk.
Human intelligence arises not as a self-standing central processing unit. It has integration with the physical elements and waveforms of the environment and grows and responds to challenges and data arriving. One of the basic characteristics of a human mind is that it changes content and information structures continuously even while dreaming. In order for artificial intelligence to resemble human intellect it too will change content and in effect rewrite its own code.
Rewriting code or information content is an activity one may accomplish intentionally for on self in several respect as information is updated and evaluated. Yet the subconscious also processes and sorts data; so subtly sometimes that one might imagine the flight trajectory of a mosquito flying past one’s eyes in the dark with the eyes closed.
Human intelligence also arises within a social context. Language evolves along with references. Change of content to input from the empirical world is as great of a part of the human experience that is intelligence as is the processing of intelligence within the brain itself. The change in weather from minute to minute is as important to recognize as making the changes in the mind in responses to a variety of stimuli. In that arises again a problem for artificial intelligence so far as it comprises a risk to human existence.
To the extent that arithmetical intelligence is able to change its own content and write its own code along with the implicit risk of being deceived with false information or the problem of making unfair ethical evaluations as humans do all of the time in politics, computers will pose serious challenges to human liberty especially in regard to forming communities of intelligence.
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