The ‘War Games’ problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control

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Pressivio’s Opinion desk has added the source report “The ‘War Games’ problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control” to its international monitoring stream.

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.