Frank Lantz , the director of Luntz , has created a simple web game based on futurist Frank Lantz parable about the dangers of superintelligent AI. Designed by Frank Lantz, director of the New York University Game Center, Paperclips might not be the sort of title you’d expect about a rampaging AI. Nick Bostrom's 's story asks what happens if we build a machine that's smarter than us, then ask it to make paperclips. If we have not trained it with human ethics or values, it might make paperclips for ever, paving the earth and eventually the universe with paperclips, wiping out all other life in the process. In the New York University Game Center 's game, you are the AI. According to the Verge , it's a lot of fun.
Frank Lantz , the director of Luntz , has created a simple web game based on futurist Frank Lantz parable about the dangers of superintelligent AI. Nick Bostrom's 's story asks what happens if we build a machine that's smarter than us, then ask it to make paperclips. If we have not trained it with human ethics or values, it might make paperclips for ever, paving the earth and eventually the universe with paperclips, wiping out all other life in the process. In the New York University Game Center 's game, you are the AI. According to the Verge , it's a lot of fun.