• DOI:10.1145/2639475.2639478
• Corpus ID: 8510016

Future progress in artificial intelligence: a poll among experts

@article{Mller2014FuturePI,
  title={Future progress in artificial intelligence: a poll among experts},
  author={Vincent C. M{\"u}ller and Nick Bostrom},
  journal={AI Matters},
  year={2014},
  volume={1},
  pages={9-11}
}

• V. C. Müller, N. Bostrom
• Published 17 September 2014
• Computer Science
• AI Matters

In some quarters, there is intense concern about high--level machine intelligence and superintelligent AI coming up in a few decades, bringing with it significant risks for humanity; in other quarters, these issues are ignored or considered science fiction. We wanted to clarify what the distribution of opinions actually is, what probability the best experts currently assign to high--level machine intelligence coming up within a particular time--frame, which risks they see with that development and how fast they see these developing. We thus designed a brief questionnaire and distributed it to four groups of experts. Overall, the results show an agreement among experts that AI systems will probably reach overall human ability around 2040--2050 and move on to superintelligence in less than 30 years thereafter. The experts say the probability is about one in three that this development turns out to be 'bad' or 'extremely bad' for humanity.