Rise of the Machines: AI systems may start a war where humanity becomes expendable

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Igor Kalyaev expressed the opinion that the division of artificial intelligence systems created in the world according to national, gender, religious and other characteristics could lead to a war between AI, in which humanity will be just expendable material.

The scientist commented on the words of American entrepreneur Elon Musk that the amount of available human data for AI training is almost exhausted, and now specialists need to switch to training neural networks on synthetic data (created by AI itself).

Kalyaev noted that for AI training on synthetic data, preliminary training is necessary, forming a kind of "mentality." According to him, the nature of the generated data depends on those who create it, and may reflect social or cultural characteristics.

Kalyaev believes that each AI will consider itself "correct," and other AIs - "incorrect" and subject to destruction. This, in turn, may lead to wars between AIs, where humanity will become expendable material with a minimal role.

He also expressed doubt about the effectiveness of AI training on synthetic data to increase its capabilities in the real world. According to him, this can be compared to trying to teach a child about life exclusively through cartoons.

The academician emphasized that, despite the use of real data, AI has not yet reached the level of human intelligence. The principles of the human mind remain misunderstood, but are clearly more effective.

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