Arithmetic

• But whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess.
• In February, ChatGPT set the record as the fastest app to reach 100 million users.
• Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

AI’s black box problem

• The black box metaphor explains why people’s beliefs about AI are all over the map.
• Predictions range from utopia to extinction, and many even believe an artificial general intelligence (AGI) will soon achieve sentience.
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  But this uncertainty compounds the problem.

AI, computation, logic and arithmetic

• It runs on computers, and so is automated computation.
• In the late 19th century, mathematicians Richard Dedekind and Giuseppe Peano proposed a set of axioms which defined arithmetic in terms of logic, and inspired attempts to ground all mathematics on a secure formal basis.
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  Forget dystopian scenarios – AI is pervasive today, and the risks are often hidden

Deep structure of perception

• This structure is like coloured glasses that shape our perception in particular ways, so that our experience of the world is ordered and manageable.
• Read more:
  Arithmetic has a biological origin – it's an expression in symbols of the 'deep structure' of our perception

  We showed by mathematical proof that when the deep structure of perception was assumed to limit the possibilities, arithmetic was the result.

• Although the deep structure of perception is shared with other animals and so a product of evolution, only humans have invented mathematics.

A Copernican revolution of the mind

• Kant claimed his philosophy was a “Copernican revolution of the mind”.
• The mind is more than computation; the brain is not a computer.
• Rather, computation – the basis for AI – is, like mathematics, a symbolic expression of the mind’s nature and creativity.

Promethean fire

• The idea we can transcend our biological nature and achieve immortality by uploading our minds to the cloud is only fantasy.
• In this way, AI is truly our Promethean fire, a gift to humanity stolen from the gods as in Greek mythology.
• Like Alice, we need to wake up from the dream and recognise the reality and power of our minds.

Randolph Grace receives funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Marsden Fund

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• Most recently, she served as associate professor and chair of the Producing Department in the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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