Greek football fans set their stadium on fire and throw anchovies at their rivals

GREEK footy fans created mayhem this week, lighting an insane “ring of fire” around a stadium and dumping hundreds of smelly anchovies on a rival’s bench. Amazing pictures have emerged of the Greek Cup semi-final game between home team PAOK and ...

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“Raus” Brings Laughs to NHM in Chicago

NEW YORK – Satire is a Greek tradition whose preservation the nation’s leaders seem to take very seriously. With or without a crisis, they strive assiduously to generate material that will keep their citizens laughing as an antidote to the pain they themselves have inflicted. Eclipses Group Theater NY in Collaboration with the National Hellenic […]

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There Are Only 3 Ways To Stop The Inevitable Robot Uprising

We're really enjoying this paper by scientist Steve Omohundro, in which he lays out the more-realistic-than-you-think implications of a robot uprising.

Because robots are only getting more and more advanced, they will one day be imbued with what Omohundro calls "approximate rationality." This is a way of saying that the robots of the future will have a certain degree of awareness of their goals, and will be able to react and compensate when something prevents them from meeting these goals.

In the best sense of the term, a robot delivering your Amazon order will have the approximate rationality to navigate around a storm system, for example. In the worst sense of the term, if you try to stop a robot from making that delivery, it would recognize you as an obstacle and figure out a way to stop — or maybe even kill — you.

Omohundro suggests there may be six different types of "evil" robots, which we delve into here, and proposes three ways of stopping them.

First, you can prevent harmful robotic systems from being created in the first place. This one's obvious enough — careful programming with a Hippocratic emphasis ("First, do no harm.") that will never contradict itself is key. This is the optimal solution and it requires a lot of forethought and planning. But let's suppose something happens and the "evil robot" gets out into the world. Your next approach would be to detect this malicious thing early in its life before it acquires too many resources. This is a matter of simply paying close attention to an autonomous system and shutting it down when it becomes clear that it's up to no good. The least desirable solution is to identify the threat after it's already acquired lots of resources. This quickly approaches sci-fi nightmare territory, and it might be too late at this point.

Omohundro likens this all to forest fires — a forest provides plenty of energy to keep a fire burning, so if you catch it early, it's a reasonable proposition to put it out. Catch it too late, and it might very well be beyond your control.

It seems the only way to be completely safe is to not start a fire in the first place, but history (and even the Greek myth of Icarus, the guy with the wax wings which melted when he flew too close to the sun) suggests we won't be able to resist seeing just how deeply we can plumb developing technologies like robotics.

SEE ALSO: Meet The Six Different Types Of 'Evil' Robots

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Greek Minister of Tourism to Visit Australia

The Greek Minister of Tourism, Olga Kefalogianni, will be visiting Australia in May to promote Greek tourism. Kefalogianni will also be signing the much-awaited deal between Greece and Australia over the tourist visa. The agreement will allow young people ...

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Lazopoulos Rejects SYRIZA Ticket Offer

Greek TV satirist Lakis Lazopoulos said he won’t accept an offer from the main opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) to run on

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Merkel says “No” to War Reparations for Greece

Just a few days after Chancellor Merkel‘s visit to Athens, it appears that the German government remains negative towards the issue of war

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Crete Police Seize Fake €50 Banknotes

Greek traders are warned to beware of fake 50 euro banknotes after police in Crete seized forgeries that experts say were likely printed in Bulgaria. Greece’s

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