Evolutionary Game Theory Could Predict Dangerous AI

Author: Kimberly Mok

Publisher: TheNewStack

Publication Year: 2022

Summary: The following article takes a different approach to understanding ethics in data science. The author attempts to simulate the race to create smarter and smarter artificial intelligence (AI). In this simulation, they control for multiple parameters to estimate different social or business environments where the competition promotes the development of the software. They note that the intense pace of development of AI due to the tremendous financial or power increase associated with having superior AI creates a trend of sacrificing ethics to achieve AI dominance.