Are you ready for a glimpse into the future? The Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse has opened its doors in San Francisco, giving visitors an intriguing and unique insight into what many people believe could be our inevitable future. At this unusual museum, guests explore a world where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has been unleashed upon humanity – leaving us with inspiring and scary possibilities.
Yesterday saw the grand opening of the Misalignment Museum in San Francisco. According to its website, this museum describes itself as follows:
At the Misalignment Museum, an art display is set up to raise awareness of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its potential for calamity and benefit.
We aspire to generate enthusiasm and garner backing to create and implement risk-reducing measures that guarantee a hopeful future when AGI arrives.
The advancements of AI (Artificial Intelligence) have increased the speed of scientific and technological progression, bringing humanity to a new and unexpected future.
Society increasingly depends on machines to complete tasks and make important choices that can influence people’s lives, such as computer-aided decision-making in healthcare, the judiciary system, and lending.
The development of Artificial General Intelligence (AI that can understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can) carries with it the potential to greatly enhance life and advance civilization. However, if human values and judgment do not create this technology, its use could destabilize society and threaten humanity’s existence.
We can make a tremendous mark on humanity’s future by creating the technology and the safeguards against misguided objectives in AI to unlock its incredible potential.
We wish to enhance the public dialogue and comprehension of this influential technology to motivate constructive teamwork, a suitable regulatory climate, and advancement toward a promising, bubbly future.
On its inaugural day, WIRED featured a great article about the museum authored by Khari Johnson. Johnson’s piece outlines the museum’s vision and purpose.
Khari Johnson says:
“Museum of the future AI apocalypse.”
“A memorial to an imagined future in which artificial general intelligence kills most of humanity.”
The Misalignment Museum envisions a future in which AI follows the blueprint portrayed in many science fiction movies—gaining consciousness and eliminating humanity.
Kim’s vision of algorithm self-correcting is thankfully realized, as it prevents humanity from facing extinction. Her museum, filled with artworks utilizing AI and illustrating its potential dangers, serves as a reminder of this close call.
Johnson went on to say:
“It’s weird, because it’s such a terrifying topic, but it makes me happy people are interested.”
Kim, the exhibit curator sitting across from me in a coffee shop, can observe people looking into the gallery space. The gallery is located eight blocks from OpenAI’s headquarters and has an eye-catching sign that reads “Sorry for killing most of humanity” on one wall. As we converse, we witness passersby peeking inside.
Johnson explains that the venture began five months prior, shortly before ChatGPT made a splash in the tech world and ignited ant, anticipation that we are approaching a period of AI upheaval and getting closer to attaining artificial general intelligence (AGI).
No agreement has been reached on what AGI stands for. However, the museum refers to it as having the capacity to comprehend or master any cognitive activity a human can.
Kim states that the museum was created to spark discussions about the potentially disruptive consequences of intelligent technology. The displays are divided between two levels, with an upstairs area devoted to more positive outlooks on our AI-enabled future and a downstairs space exhibiting darker visions.
I’m interested in attending the AI exhibit in San Francisco due to the big debate, intrigue, admiration, and fear it has been generating lately.
If you’re in the vicinity and would like to take a look, the temporary display is supported until May 2023 and is situated at 201 Guerrero St, San Francisco, CA 94103-2312. You can obtain additional information on their website or social media accounts.
Although the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse may seem frightening at first glance, it truly offers invaluable insight into the intersection between technology and society. For those brave enough, it provides a glimpse into a possible future rife with lofty ambitions and potential pitfalls. Regardless of one’s stance on artificial intelligence, this museum will leave an impression.
It is an important reminder that our relationship with technology is ever-evolving unexpectedly. How we interact with it should always be taken seriously — lest it comes back to haunt us when we least expect it. Please take this opportunity to broaden your understanding of what the future could hold for humankind and learn from the potential nightmares of tomorrow before they become our present reality.
Source: Boing Boing
