A statement released by the Center for AI Safety says that “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” It was signed by some of the biggest names in AI: Geoffrey Hinton (Emeritus Professor,...
Facing AI extinction In a recent White House press conference, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre couldn’t suppress her laughter at the question: Is it “crazy” to worry that “literally everyone on Earth will die” due to artificial intelligence?___, the answer is no. While AI ...
The extent to which advising the board of directors or senior management would reduce societal risks depends on many different factors. It would be easier if the ethics board has a direct communication channel to the board of directors, ideally to a dedicated risk committee. It would also be e...
On the one hand, a fair deal of literature and public discourse has been focusing on the so-called existential risks related to the deployment of AI systems, often involving human extinction or global catastrophes. On the other hand, usually in open contrast with the talk on existential risk,...
risk is extinction, but there are other outcomes, such as creating a permanent dystopian society, which would also constitute an existential catastrophe. We outline many possible catastrophes, some of which are more likely than others and some of which are mutually incompatible with each other. ...
In late May 2023, more than 350 AI scientists and other notable figures (e.g., Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft) signed this one-line Statement on AI Risk released by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety: “Mitigating the risk of extinction fro...
“the risk of extinction from AI,” which itasserted wasakinto the threats of nuclear war andpandemics. Sam Altman,embattledCEO of Open AI, the company behind the popular language-learning model Chat -GPT, had previouslyalluded t...
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”— the CEOs of OpenAI (of ChatGPT), Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and 2 of 3 researchers considered “the godfathers of AI” I’ve thought lon...
That which may harm a species (e.g. insufficient breeding that leads to extinction) may not necessarily harm individual animals. Conversely, what harms individuals (e.g. factory-farming conditions for domestic animals) need not harm their species. Second, our notion of harm is connected to the...
3.1.4 Actors May Risk Extinction Over Individual Defeat “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Einstein Competitive pressures make actors more willing to accept the risk of extinction.During the Cold War, neithe...