According to an open letter signed by AI leaders such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman, artificial intelligence could pose an “extinction risk” to humanity on the scale of a nuclear war or pandemic, and mitigating that risk is critical. It should be a “global priority,” he said. as Jeffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather” of AI.
This one-sentence open letter, published by the nonprofit AI Safety Center, is both brief and eerie and shows how more than 300 signatories predict AI will evolve into an existential threat to humanity. is not touched upon.
“There are many pathways to societal-scale risk from AI,” Dan Hendricks, director of the AI Safety Center, wrote in an email to CBS MoneyWatch.
“For example, AI could be used by malicious attackers to design new bioweapons that are more deadly than natural pandemics,” Hendricks wrote. “Alternatively, a malicious attacker could intentionally release a rogue AI that actively seeks to harm humanity. , can pose a significant risk to society as a whole.”
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Long-term risks also threaten humanity, he added, such as when AI automates parts of the economy and humans relinquish control of technology to stay competitive.
“This scenario increasingly relies on AI to navigate an increasingly fast-paced and complex landscape,” he said. “This growing dependence could make the idea of simply ‘shutting them down’ not only destructive, but potentially impossible, leading to the risk that humanity will lose control of its future. I have.”
Altman told lawmakers earlier this month that AI “going in the wrong directionUnless properly regulated, it could “cause serious harm to the world.” Generative AI can create text, photos, and videos that are difficult to distinguish from human-made creations, which can lead to problems such as: Songs generated by AI It’s a clone of the voices of musicians Drake and The Weeknd.
The song was eventually removed from the streaming platform after publishing giant Universal Music Group claimed it violated copyright law.
More directly, experts highlight the risks AI poses to certain types of workers, with researchers pointing to the technology’s potential to: eliminate millions of jobs. A new report by UBS analysts finds that the adoption of AI in the workplace is fraught with uncertainty and risk, and it’s not just hiring companies that employ AI.
For example, generative AI can “hallucinate” answers, a term that refers to spitting out false information that appears to be true, and this property not only spreads false information, but also increases the trust of the companies that use it. UBS said it could pose a risk to sex. Such a case recently occurred when a lawyer filed a brief based on an investigation conducted by his ChatGPT. case invented It didn’t exist, but they claimed it was real.
Other signatories to the open letter include luminaries such as Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett, Middlebury University environmental activist Bill McKibben, and musician Grimes.
