A group of top AI researchers, engineers and CEOs has issued a new warning about the existential threat they believe AI poses to humanity. Among the signatories to the statement are Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT.22 word clear warning
The 22-word statement, shortened to be as widely accepted as possible, reads: “Reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, along with other societal-scale risks such as epidemics and nuclear war.”
This paper, published by the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, was awarded the 2018 Turing Prize (“the Nobel Prize in computing”), alongside Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for their work on AI. It has also been signed by the likes of Geoffrey Hinton and Youshua Bengio, two of the three AI researchers who won the “Award”. The third winner of this award, Yann LeCun, who has not yet signed the statement, currently works as chief artificial intelligence scientist at Facebook’s parent company Meta.
Many experts point to rapid developments in systems such as large language models as evidence of predicted future intelligence gains. They say that once AI systems reach a certain level of sophistication, it may become impossible to control their actions. Others disagree with these concerns, pointing to the inability of AI systems to perform even relatively mundane tasks, such as driving a car. However, both parties agree that their current systems facilitate the spread of misinformation and disinformation.
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