Editing Steve Wozniak (section)

==Views on artificial superintelligence==

In March 2015, Wozniak stated that while he had originally dismissed [[Ray Kurzweil]]'s opinion that [[machine intelligence]] would outpace human intelligence within several decades, Wozniak had changed his mind: {{cquote|I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.
}} Wozniak stated that he had started to identify a contradictory sense of foreboding about artificial intelligence, while still supporting the advance of technology.<ref>{{cite news |last= Holley |first= Peter |title= Apple co-founder on artificial intelligence: 'The future is scary and very bad for people' |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/03/24/apple-co-founder-on-artificial-intelligence-the-future-is-scary-and-very-bad-for-people/ |access-date= January 7, 2018 |newspaper= [[Washington Post]] |date= March 24, 2015 |archive-date= January 5, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180105054545/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/03/24/apple-co-founder-on-artificial-intelligence-the-future-is-scary-and-very-bad-for-people/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

By June 2015, Wozniak changed his mind again, stating that a [[superintelligence]] takeover would be good for humans: {{cquote|They're going to be smarter than us and if they're smarter than us then they'll realise they need us&nbsp;... We want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time&nbsp;... I got this idea a few years ago and so I started feeding my dog filet steak and chicken every night because 'do unto others'.<ref>{{cite news |last= Gibbs |first= Samuel |title= Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says humans will be robots' pets |url= https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/25/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-humans-will-be-robots-pets |access-date= January 7, 2018 |work= [[The Guardian]] |date= June 25, 2015 |archive-date= January 8, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108063128/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/25/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-humans-will-be-robots-pets |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Dowd |first= Maureen |author-link= Maureen Dowd |title= Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse |url= https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/elon-musk-billion-dollar-crusade-to-stop-ai-space-x |access-date= January 7, 2018 |work= [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date= April 2017 |language= en |archive-date= July 26, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180726041656/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/elon-musk-billion-dollar-crusade-to-stop-ai-space-x |url-status= live }}</ref>}}

In 2016, Wozniak changed his mind again, stating that he no longer worried about the possibility of superintelligence emerging because he is skeptical that computers will be able to compete with human "intuition": "A computer could figure out a logical endpoint decision, but that's not the way intelligence works in humans". Wozniak added that if computers do become superintelligent, "they're going to be partners of humans over all other species just forever".<ref>{{cite news |title= Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak dismisses AI concerns raised by Stephen Hawking and Nick Bostrom |url= http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-ai-2016-10 |access-date= January 7, 2018 |work= [[Business Insider]] |date= October 9, 2016 |language= en |archive-date= January 8, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108063238/http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-ai-2016-10 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Stockton |first= Nick |title= How Steve Wozniak Got Over His Fear of Robots Turning People Into Pets |url= https://www.wired.com/2017/04/steve-wozniak-silicon-valleys-nerdiest-legend/ |access-date= January 7, 2018 |magazine= [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date= April 19, 2017 |archive-date= January 8, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108063845/https://www.wired.com/2017/04/steve-wozniak-silicon-valleys-nerdiest-legend/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Elon Musk says AI could doom human civilization. Zuckerberg disagrees. Who's right? |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/02/artificial-intelligence-end-world-overblown-fears/985813001/ |access-date= January 7, 2018 |work= [[USA Today]] |date= January 2, 2018 |language= en |archive-date= January 8, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108075432/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/02/artificial-intelligence-end-world-overblown-fears/985813001/ |url-status= live }}</ref> 

Wozniak signed a 2023 [[Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter|open letter]] from the [[Future of Life Institute]] calling for "all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kahn |first=Jeremy |title=Musk and Wozniak among 1,100+ signing open letter calling for 6-month ban on creating powerful A.I. |url=https://fortune.com/2023/03/29/elon-musk-apple-steve-wozniak-over-1100-sign-open-letter-6-month-ban-creating-powerful-ai/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Fortune |language=en}}</ref> In an interview to the BBC in May 2023 Wozniak said that AI may make scams more difficult to detect, noting that "AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are".<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 8, 2023 |title=Apple co-founder says AI may make scams harder to spot |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65496150 |access-date=May 16, 2023}}</ref>