{"id":231893,"date":"2017-10-05T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231893"},"modified":"2017-10-05T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:21:55","slug":"deepmind-looks-at-controlling-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/231893-deepmind-looks-at-controlling-ai.html","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind looks at controlling AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind has launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.com\/blog\/why-we-launched-deepmind-ethics-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ethics and Society division<\/strong><\/a>, which aims to understand the impact of AI.<\/p>\n<p>The unit will help technologists create ethical AI and direct the impact of AI in society to benefit users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The development of AI creates important and complex questions. Its impact on society is not something that should be left to chance,&#8221; said DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent figures in the technology industry including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned of the dangers of creating an AI without ethical constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Many fear that an AI with flawed ethical programming could turn against humans in a misguided attempt to fulfill its purpose.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/223852-deepmind-to-take-on-starcraft-ii.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">DeepMind to take on StarCraft II<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind has launched a new Ethics and Society division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[27887,42494,167],"class_list":["post-231893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-ai","tag-deepmind","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231971,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231893\/revisions\/231971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}