How threatening for mankind is an Artificial Brain ?

First let me state that at this moment the biggest threat for mankind is the human specie ! ABC-weapons in wrong hands can result in extreme damaging behavior. Most scientists agree that the CO2 and micro-dust problem we face today and at least the next 100 years is mainly caused by us humans, but we just keep on going producing toxic gasses into the atmosphere as if there was no problem at all… Suicide bomber attacks, increased number of deadly assaults in schools or on campuses both in the U.S. and Europe, religious and ethnical conflicts, etc …

The main reason I publish the essentials for an Artificial Brain available for everybody on the Internet is that the way current evolutions in A.I. are going the wrong way and could indeed form a serious threat for us humans. Copying the human brain as such in vast amounts of electrical or digital neural networks is far from wise ! Too many unknown variables are present ! The number of interconnections is simply too high ! We often talk about millions of connections and do not know enough about our brain to have control over it if something is going the wrong direction. If it will work at all !

Some companies (partially) try to imitate the brain's behavior on massive clusters of computers (total of 1.000 processors) in order to discover more 'intelligent' neural networks applicable for commercial use. I personally encourage this since all will benefit from this in the long term. The only warning in these scenario's is to keep the pre-frontal cortex (center of creativity) as small as possible to avoid possible problems, if this area is covered in the design.

Do not doubt for a moment that sooner or later an Artificial Brain will be reality, the strategic advantages for the military are simply too high. One must not forget that the upcoming superpower China has 1.3 billion citizens and some other superpowers consider this as a potential threat since they only have a fraction of this amount as citizens ! Therefore I prefer a clear and understandable design as described in ‘The Artificial Brain’ over some creation of Frankenstein with no control over at all !

The basic conclusion is that an A.B. can impose a threat for mankind if not done correctly, with knowledge and implemented control-systems. The required knowledge reaches a little wider than just simple psychology, neurology or electronics !