Vitalik Buterin’s take on the ‘AI versus humans’ debate

The co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, believes that AI should not be considered as a competitor of humanity, but rather as a free tool that humans can exploit to advance in the future.

HAS Waterproof May 28, Ethereum (Ethn) Co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared his reflections on the age -old debate artificial intelligence One day will dethrone human judgment. He thinks that AI will be an inevitable part of human evolution, but not necessarily as a competitor.

“I think we are entering this interesting mode where it is not necessarily AI against man, but more human,” said Vitalik Buterin during his cat by the fireside with the founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

Buterin has referred to events in history where computers were able to thwart humans, such as the 1996 chess tournament between the great chess in blue and Russian, Garry Kasparov. In the end, IBM’s computer was able to defeat the big master in a game of computer failures.

“We certainly do not want to be mistaken by thinking that it is something which, by default, will be there as the situation forever, but you know that there will certainly be a period of time when it is the situation for a particular task,” he continued.

That said, Vitalik Buterin pointed out that there are things that AI is better to do in relation to the average human mind. An example he mentioned was the way AI is able to summarize human preferences through algorithm and make good forecasts and approximations according to the data it has collected.

In the future, he predicted that governance will one day imply AI or another, declaring that “the future of individual and collective decision -making will imply AI in a form”.

Buterin suggested that instead of trying to beat AI, humanity should focus more on exploration in the best way to use it to our advantage. However, he does not think that an AI model should be praised above all superior.

“I believe that AI is the game player. Let AI be in the game, but it is something that is really worth approaching and using intelligently,” said Buterin.

Overall, Buterin said he thought that the digital world is improving, in particular in terms of data confidentiality. An example he mentioned was how encrypted messages, called proof of zero knowledge, became the default mode for communication applications instead of an optional functionality.

However, these improvements are also accompanied by new challenges that humanity must learn to overcome when they sail in the digital world.

The interaction between “technological developments and legal standards and social norms are super important,” concluded Buerin.