Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI
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The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.
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Scientists and tech industry leaders, including executives at Microsoft and Google, have issued a new warning about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. The statement posted online Tuesday says that “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongsi…
LONDON >> Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning today about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind.
LONDON (AP) — Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to huma…
It's the most recent in a series of alarms raised by experts on artificial intelligence — but also one that stoked growing pushback against a focus on what seem as its overhyped hypothetical harms.
Tech leaders, academics and others have signed a new statement shared by the Center for AI that highlights the need to mitigate the risk of extinction from artificial intelligence.
Dozens of AI industry leaders, academics and even some celebrities on Tuesday called for reducing the risk of global annihilation due to artificial intelligence, arguing in a brief statement that the threat of an AI extinction event should be a top global priority.
Tech executives and artificial-intelligence scientists are sounding the alarm about AI, saying that the technology poses an extinction risk as great as pandemics and nuclear war.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis were among the tech leaders warning AI could be as dangerous as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
Leading artificial intelligence executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have published a lone sentence saying "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority," akin to nuclear war or pandemics.
Artificial intelligence researchers, scientists and tech industry leaders issued a dire warning Tuesday about AI's threat to humankind, saying "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority."
The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement on Tuesday read.
"We become very dependent on them and we're completely subject to them always doing our bidding. If they turn in another direction or pursue something else, then we would be powerless to correct it."
