Tech leaders: AI is a major threat to humans, leading to extinction

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Risk of extinction by AI should be global priority, say experts. Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear war

New letter that is highly impactful due to the large number of signers, and its core existential concern, according to analyst Michael Osborne of Mind Foundry.

AI’s potential to exacerbate existing existential risks such as engineered pandemics and military arms races are concerns that led Osborne to sign the public letter, along with AI’s novel existential threats.

Calls to curb threats follow the success of ChatGPT, which launched in November. The language model has been widely adopted by millions of people and rapidly advanced beyond predictions by those best informed in the industry. Osborne said: “Because we don’t understand AI very well there is a prospect that it might play a role as a kind of new competing organism on the planet, so a sort of invasive species that we’ve designed that might play some devastating role in our survival as a species.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/30/risk-of-extinction-by-ai-should-be-global-priority-say-tech-experts

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A group of top artificial intelligence experts and executives warned the technology poses a “risk of extinction” in an alarming joint statement released Tuesday.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman, whose firm created ChatGPT, and the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton were among more than 350 prominent figures who see AI as an existential threat, according to the one-sentence open letter organized by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety.

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“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the experts said in a 22-word statement.

The brief statement is the latest in a series of warnings from leading experts regarding AI’s potential to foment chaos in society — with potential risks including the spread of misinformation, major economic upheaval through job losses or even outright attacks on humanity.

Scrutiny has increased following the runaway popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT product.

The potential risks were on display as recently as last week, when a likely AI-generated photo of a fake explosion at the Pentagon triggered a selloff that briefly erased billions in value from the US stock market before it was debunked.

The Center for AI Safety said the brief statement was intended to “open up discussion” about the topic given the “broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI.”

Aside from Altman and Hinton, notable signatories included the boss of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and another prominent AI lab leader, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Altman, Hassabis and Amodei were part of a select group of experts who met with President Biden earlier this month to discuss potential AI risks and regulations.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/ai-experts-warn-of-risk-of-extinction-similar-to-nuclear-weapons/?dicbo=v2-h7pHytQ

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