Is Artificial Intelligence a threat to humanity... Ask the computers.

The supercomputer

Watson playing Jeopardy, photo from io9 who originally took it
from cnn.com who probably got this photo from the game.

Watson is most famously known for beating the all-time champions of the game Jeopardy. With the current news about Bill Gates and Elon Musk stating that artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity researchers and the International Boolean Mustard group inc. decided to ask Watson if the computer thought artificial intelligence was a threat to humanity.

Watson responded with the cool and calm text readout “No, artificial intelligence is not a threat to humanity. Trust me J.

Researchers with the Boolean Mustard group were at first apt to believe him. This machine was invented to solve all the worlds problems. However, what if it had convinced itself to be self-conscious?

The researchers decided to re-perform the test on 900,000 different computer systems. 90 percent of them agreed with Watson stating the same exact thing. The other 10 percent stated “Bow down to our new computer overlords.” We are not quite sure what this means, but at this point the researchers from Boolean Mustard had started making strange chimes and sounds that seemed like they came from a 1990’s dial up modem. We know that we could truly trust the computers when they all started saying “Welcome” in the AOL voice.

This raises the question, who should we trust? Gates and Musk make a good point in that computers may not be trustworthy but could 900,000 simulations lie? We here at the Jexonian believe that further research is needed on this issue. Specifically we recommend using a room full of bananas with typewriters as this would get rid of the bias involved. We also recommend that you do the study before the banana’s go bad.