# Can we build AI without losing control over it?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDSummit
- Speaker: Sam Harris
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Computer science, Psychology and the brain, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without_losing_control_over_it)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build superhuman machines, says Harris, but we haven't yet grappled with the problems associated with creating something that may treat us the way we treat ants.

## Lectures

1. [Can we build AI without losing control over it?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without_losing_control_over_it/f40e4a9fe66a), 15 min (TED's player)