{"id":43448,"date":"2018-01-07T03:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/an-institute-studying-existential-risk-has-made-a-civilization-mod-about-superintelligent-ai\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T10:09:14","slug":"an-institute-studying-existential-risk-has-made-a-civilization-mod-about-superintelligent-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/an-institute-studying-existential-risk-has-made-a-civilization-mod-about-superintelligent-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"An institute studying \u2018existential risk\u2019 has made a Civilization mod about superintelligent AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whether or not you think superintelligent AI poses a credible threat to humanity in the near future, you have to admit it\u2019s a problem at least worth thinking<\/em> about \u2014 or hey, maybe even playing a game about it. That\u2019s why Cambridge University\u2019s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) has released a mod<\/a> for popular strategy title Civilization V<\/em> that\u2019s all about mitigating the threat from superintelligent AI.<\/p>\n

CSER isn\u2019t usually known for its gaming products. The research group was founded in 2012, and is dedicated to exploring various global catastrophes<\/a> capable of collapsing civilization or wiping out humanity altogether \u2014 otherwise known as \u201cexistential threats.\u201d These include not only superintelligent AI (a computer program that…<\/p>\n

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Whether or not you think superintelligent AI poses a credible threat to humanity in the near future, you have to admit it\u2019s a problem at least worth thinking about \u2014 or hey, maybe even playing a game about it. That\u2019s why Cambridge University\u2019s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) has released a mod… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t