Artificial Intelligence and Safety Control

Abstract

Science and technology serve as the impetus of human progress. From the earliest bow-drill fire making to present-day AI, every small step of scientific–technological progress will propel human development by one giant leap. Yet, science is also a “double-edge sword,” as proved by human history that the abuse of technology will lead to the loss of freedom, even death to mankind. For example, although nuclear energy brings inexhaustible energy to human beings, nuclear weapon developed by such technology will endanger the security of the people around the world. As time passes, security threat keeps evolving. With the advent of AI, new opportunities are available for safety control. Meanwhile, there have arisen such issues as manipulated politics, fabrication of information, control of public opinions, and infringement of privacy, which will severely endanger human security. For this reason, we should be very prudent in developing AI, persist in attaching equal importance to security and development, and fully recognize the fact that without dead-sure security, there would have been no smooth development. In a word, human intelligence must learn to control AI and make it convoy the development of human society during the process of restructuring security order.