Edward Snowden: ‘Greatest danger still lies ahead with refinement of AI’

The key difference between AGI and Narrow AI is goal setting and volition.

In the future, AGI is going to have the ability to reflect on its own goals and decide whether to adjust them or not, and until what extent.

If done right, this extraordinary technological achievement is going to change humankind forever.

Yet, there is still a long way to go in order to reach that point.

Despite this, many today fear that Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) one day is going to go beyond human cognition.

But even though this is quite likely to happen in the future, it will not be happen any time soon.