
Artificial Intelligence Raises Risk Of Extinction, Experts Say In New Warning
Huff PostAP Photo/Alastair Grant OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, the founder of ChatGPT and creator of OpenAI speaks at University College London, as part of his world tour of speaking engagements in London, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement said. “So we had to get people to sort of come out of the closet, so to speak, on this issue because many were sort of silently speaking among each other.” More than 1,000 researchers and technologists, including Elon Musk, had signed a much longer letter earlier this year calling for a six-month pause on AI development, saying it poses “profound risks to society and humanity.” That letter was a response to OpenAI’s release of a new AI model, GPT-4, but leaders at OpenAI, its partner Microsoft and rival Google didn’t sign on and rejected the call for a voluntary industry pause. Hendrycks said there’s no reason why society can’t manage the “urgent, ongoing harms” of products that generate new text or images, while also starting to address the “potential catastrophes around the corner.” He compared it to nuclear scientists in the 1930s warning people to be careful even though “we haven’t quite developed the bomb yet.” “Nobody is saying that GPT-4 or ChatGPT today is causing these sorts of concerns,” Hendrycks said. David Krueger, an assistant computer science professor at the University of Cambridge, said some of the hesitation in speaking out is that scientists don’t want to be seen as suggesting AI “consciousness or AI doing something magic,” but he said AI systems don’t need to be self-aware or setting their own goals to pose a threat to humanity.
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