2024-01-06
📢📊 Important new survey results from @AIImpacts, surveying 2,700+ AI researchers. Some key points: ⚠️ The median respondent believes there's a 5% or greater chance of AI causing human extinction; one-third to half of respondents believe there's over a 10% chance. 😨 A majority...
The Decoder
A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development's pace will keep accelerating, and more
The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the scientific community has no consensus on the risks and opportunities of AI …
2023-10-19
“Just as we've had public discussions about the danger of nuclear weapons and climate change, the public needs to come to grips that there is yet another danger that has a similar magnitude of potential risks.” -Bengio on AI risks, in @BulletinAtomic ⬇️ https://thebulletin.org/...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on nuance in headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top researchers may disagree about AI's potential risks to humanity
Susan D'Agostino / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : X: @bulletinatomic , @susan_dagostino , @aisafetyfirst , and @flixrisk LinkedIn: Prakash Hebalkar , Michael Robbins , and St...
2023-03-29
As @GaryMarcus and many others have correctly pointed out, you don't have to worry about superintelligence to be concerned about the many other harms that large models pose, including impersonation and disinformation (4/8). https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ...
The Road to AI We Can Trust
Discounting AI's short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared
As @GaryMarcus and many others have correctly pointed out, you don't have to worry about superintelligence to be concerned about the many other harms that large models pose, including impersonation and disinformation (4/8). https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ...
Future of Life Institute
Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures