Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Human Extinction
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VIVA – Artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the extinction of humanity, experts, including the Heads of OpenAI and Google Deepmind, have warned.
A group of research executives, experts and other personalities put their names to a one-sentence statement published on Tuesday by the umbrella group Center for AI Safety (CAIS).
"Reducing the risk of AI extinction should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," the statement said.
The preamble to the statement more than doubled as the main event. It said that many people are "increasingly discussing the broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI."
"Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of the most severe AI risks. The brief statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion," the group said.
It is also intended to create general knowledge about the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of the most severe risks of advanced AI seriously.
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Two of the three so-called "Godfathers of AI" who shared the 2018 Turing Award, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, are placed at the top of the list of signatories.
Also, there is Yann Le Cun, who works at Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook holding company, not a signatory.
Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassasbis and OpenAI's (the company behind chatbot ChatGPT) CEO Sam Altman come next, along with AI company Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei.
Various academics and business people, many of whom work at companies like Google and Microsoft, make up the bulk of the list.
But it also included other well-known people such as former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, neuroscientist and podcast presenter Sam Harris, and Canadian pop singer and songwriter Grimes.
The letter was published to coincide with the US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in Sweden, where politicians and tech figures are expected to talk about potential AI regulation.
