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Experts believe that AI can very soon match humans. (Representational image/Reuters)
Along with Altman, they included the CEOs of AI firms DeepMind and Anthropic, and executives from Microsoft and Google.
Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined experts and professors on Tuesday in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, urging policymakers to equate the risks posed by the pandemic and nuclear war. requested.
“Reducing the risk of extinction from AI must be a global priority alongside other societal-level risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” wrote more than 350 signatories to a letter published by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS). “
Along with Altman, they included the CEOs of AI firms DeepMind and Anthropic, and executives from Microsoft and Google.
Among them were Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – two of the three so-called “godfathers of AI” who received the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep learning – and professors from institutions ranging from Harvard to China’s Tsinghua University.
A statement from CAIS alienated Meta, where the third godfather of AI, Yann LeCun, works for not signing the letter.
“We asked several Meta employees to sign,” said Dan Hendricks, director of CAIS. Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The letter coincides with a meeting of the US-EU Business and Technology Council in Sweden where politicians are expected to talk about regulating AI.
Elon Musk and a group of AI experts and industry executives were among the first to cite potential risks to society in April.
“We have extended the invitation (to Musk) and we expect him to sign it this week,” Hendrix said.
Recent developments in AI have led to tools proponents say could be used in applications ranging from medical diagnostics to writing legal briefs, but have raised fears that the technology could lead to privacy violations, power misinformation campaigns and “smart machines”. Thinking for can lead to issues. Self.
The warning comes two months after the nonprofit Future of Life Institute (FLI) released a similar open letter signed by Musk and hundreds of others, calling for an immediate halt to advanced AI research, citing risks to humanity. Has been done.
FLI president Max Tegmark said, “Our letter is a major break, it is an aberration of the mainstream.”
AI pioneer Hinton previously told Reuters that AI could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change.
Last week OpenAI CEO Sam Altman referred to EU AI – the first attempt to create a regulation for AI – as over-regulation and threatened to leave Europe. He reversed his stance within days of criticism from politicians.
Altman has become the face of AI after the ChatGPT chatbot has taken over the world. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet Altmann on Thursday, and EU industry chief Thierry Breton will meet him in San Francisco next month.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – reuters,
