Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn

[onthedarkside]

 

Artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity, experts - including the heads of OpenAI and Google Deepmind - have warned.

 

Dozens have supported a statement published on the webpage of the Centre for AI Safety.

 

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war" it reads.

 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65746524

 

[ukrules]

What this is about : Existing AI firms are simply pushing for regulation to make life difficult for future entrants.

 

That pretty much sums it up.

[webfact]

Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war.

 

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” more than 350 signatories wrote in a letter published by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS).

 

As well as Altman, they included the CEOs of AI firms DeepMind and Anthropic, and executives from Microsoft and Google.

 

Also among them were Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – two of the three so-called “godfathers of AI” who received the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep learning – and professors from institutions ranging from Harvard to China’s Tsinghua University.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/top-ai-ceos-experts-raise-risk-of-extinction-from-ai/

 

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[Emster23]

so what is the downside? Asking for a local planet....

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war.

AI is nothing to worry about...

Mankind is the global killer.

[Purdey]

I doubt humans will become extinct unless we give AI the ability to build new versions of itself. We could be in for a period of bliss as AI takes care of our needs.

[Berkshire]

Upside:  AI can help make human lives better by finding solutions in medicine, transportation, subsistence, energy, health and safety, etc.

 

Downside: See the movies Matrix, Terminator, etc.

[AgMech Cowboy]

I thought that was the goal. Afterall, aren't people the problem when it comes to climate change?

[klauskunkel]

As AI improves itself, humanity dumbs down and will go extinct by means of stupid selfie taking accidents.

[Chomper Higgot]

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

What this is about : Existing AI firms are simply pushing for regulation to make life difficult for future entrants.

 

That pretty much sums it up.

I think they are pushing for future regulation to distract from what they are doing right now.

 

AI is here, and it’s being used now.

 

AI is choosing what adverts you see, it’s choosing the feed you see on your social media.

 

Corporations are gathering data on anyone using social media, shopping on line, viewing videos, reading online content and plugging it into AI.

 

They are not doing it for your benefit.

 

 

Edited May 31, 2023 by Chomper Higgot

[ukrules]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I think they are pushing for future regulation to distract from what they are doing right now.

 

AI is here, and it’s being used now.

 

AI is choosing what adverts you see, it’s choosing the feed you see on your social media.

 

Corporations are gathering data on anyone using social media, shopping on line, viewing videos, reading online content and plugging it into AI.

 

They are not doing it for your benefit.

 

 

It's known as 'regulatory capture' where the current 'players' encourage regulation in order to keep others out.

 

The bar for entry would be set very high, everyone involved right now of course would be grandfathered in.

 

That way there's no competition - what they fear is an arms race which reduces their current monopoly to zero.

 

A fine example of this kind of approach by big business is the beer brewing regulations in Thailand. All stitched up between a couple of mega corporations with a massive bar to entry for new producers.

 

That's what they're doing, they will write their own regulations anyway.

Edited May 31, 2023 by ukrules

[Skeptic7]

Been watching too many Sci-fi flicks❗????

[nobodysfriend]

Humanity urgently needs to change it's behavior towards this planet if they want to survive .

May be , AI can regulate this ...?

No more Nationalities , no more passports , no more races , just humans living in a unified world without hating each other because of their respective cultural backgrounds ...

Only together it will be possible to solve existential problems facing this planet and it's dominant species .

AI could help a lot ( f.e. in replacing corrupt politicians )

Edited June 1, 2023 by nobodysfriend

[sirineou]

On 5/31/2023 at 9:49 AM, Emster23 said:

so what is the downside? Asking for a local planet....

The only downside I can think of is that I would be one of the exterminated ones. Other than that I bid you al a fine adieu. 

Edited June 2, 2023 by sirineou

[sirineou]

I watched this podcast   interview of the former chief business officer of Google X. 

watch at least the first 10 minutes and tell me how you cannot be alarmed?

10 minutes! surely you can invest 10 minutes to such important subject. 

Don't let the title put you off, It is an out of context quote.  

 

Edited June 2, 2023 by sirineou

[JackGats]

 What is one trying to divert attention from with this scare-mongering about AI?

 

The problem with machines are noisy dumb machines - like lorries - that crush and kill and belch fumes, not silent intelligent machines that interract and take over drudging work.

 

[sirineou]

Probably the most important development in History and only four people care to comment.!!

[sirineou]

^^^^

Correction , 12 people have responded , So I should had said 3x4  people have responded . You didn't think I could do math, did you?????