- by Chris Vallance
- technology reporter
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Protesters outside the London event where Sam Altman spoke
Artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction, experts warn, including head of OpenAI and Google Deepmind
“Reducing the risk of AI-induced extinction should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” it reads.
But some say the concerns are exaggerated.
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Dario Amodei of Anthropic all endorse the statement.
Jeffrey Hinton, who previously warned about the risks posed by superintelligent AI, also supports the call.
Yoshua Bengio, professor of computer science at the University of Montreal, also signed.
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Dr. Hinton, Professor Bengio, and New York University Professor Yann LeCun, often described as the “Godfather of AI” for their groundbreaking work in the field, jointly won the 2018 Turing Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science. won the award.
But Professor Lucan, who also works for Meta, said those apocalyptic warnings were exaggerated.
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Many other experts similarly believe that fears that AI will destroy humanity are unrealistic and merely distract from problems such as system bias that are already at stake. ing.
Princeton University computer scientist Arvind Narayanan previously told the BBC that science fiction-like disaster scenarios are a distraction.
“Today’s AI is far from being powerful enough to make these risks a reality,” he told the BBC. “As a result, attention is diverted from the short-term harm of AI.”
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Since March 2023, when experts, including Tesla president Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a halt to the development of next-generation AI technology, media coverage of the ‘existing’ threat from AI has snowballed. ing.
An earlier letter asked whether we should “develop a non-human mind that will eventually surpass us, wring out our wits, become obsolete, and may take its place.”
In contrast, the new campaign includes very short statements intended to “broaden the discussion.”
