Self-Driving Teens and Looming AI Threats: How Dangerous Can It Get?

My early journey into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and reflections upon the potentially dangerous future of AI and what we can do to mitigate the threats.

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My First AI Project and the Threat Of AI

As a teenager, I coded a self-driving car for my first-ever AI project. Reflecting on this, it sounds like a potentially disastrous project — a young boy with no driving experience designing his own self-driving car. Thankfully, no one was ever hurt by my project.

My Self-Driving Car Application Is an Author Project for the Final Year High School Project

This was due to the project's limited scope. As illustrated in the image above, the car was only driven in a simulated environment, so the chances of this causing any real-life harm were basically zero. In contrast to when I was a boy, the looming threat of dangerous AI systems seems far more plausible than ever before.

Traditional Algorithms Versus AI Algorithms

To understand the potential dangers of future AI projects, we must first note that AI…