A team of international scientists designed a theoretical containment algorithm that ensures a super-intelligent system could not harm people under any circumstance, by simulating the AI and blocking it from wrecking havoc on humanity. .

Iyad Rahwan, Director of the Center for Humans and Machines, said: ‘If this happened, you would not know whether the containment algorithm is still analyzing the threat, or whether it has stopped to contain the harmful AI.’.

A team of international scientists designed a theoretical containment algorithm that ensures a super-intelligent system could not harm people under any circumstance, by simulating the AI and blocking it from wrecking havoc on humanity.

AI has been fascinating humans for years, as we are in awe by machines that control cars, compose symphonies or beat the world’s best chess player at their own game.

Using theoretical calculations, an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, shows that it would not be possible to control a super-intelligent AI.

In their study, the team conceived a theoretical containment algorithm that ensures a super-intelligent AI cannot harm people under any circumstances, by simulating the behavior of the AI first and halting it if considered harmful. .

Based on these calculations the containment problem is incomputable, no single algorithm can find a solution for determining whether an AI would produce harm to the world.

Researchers also demonstrated that we may not even know when super-intelligent machines have arrived, because deciding whether a machine exhibits intelligence superior to humans is in the same realm as the containment problem.

He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets.

Some people believe AI will wipe out humans completely