AI leaders warn of 'extinction risk'

https://lnkd.in/ebZBBNWu "A group of industry leaders is planning to warn on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they are building may one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars.?Recent advancements in so-called large language models — the type of A.I. system used by ChatGPT and other chatbots — have raised fears that A.I. could soon be used at scale to spread misinformation and propaganda, or that it could eliminate millions of white-collar jobs." I have yet to see a technology more primed to profoundly impact our society in such a rapid time period. Millions of people are leveraging AI chatbots for entertainment, increasing?productivity and improving their lives. Just this weekend?I used ChatGPT to find a recipe?using ingredients in my pantry so I wouldn't keep?wasting food.?Fueled by economic headwinds, companies are adopting generative AI to become more efficient and save money. How should we be thinking about its uses as corporate?leaders? I was fortunate to be at the front of the privacy industry when the internet boom happened in the early 2000s and data collection?practices were emerging. Thanks to the support of Fran Maier and Carolyn Hodge, PHR?, MBA Hodge, I was encouraged to work on the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a cross-collaboration among?corporations, associations and government to work?together on creating industry standards and best practices around phishing and spoofing. Over time the privacy industry has evolved putting consumer choice and transparency in more focus. There is no doubt IMHO that AI needs regulation, but I also believe?we have a tremendous?opportunity to come together as leaders to set best practices and standards that are best for our customers, prospects, partners?and employees.? Choice, transparency, and integrity are always winning combinations.

The CEOs of three leading AI companies are warning of the "extinction" risk posed by artificial intelligence. OpenAI CEO?Sam Altman, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have all signed a public statement that compares the risks posed by AI with nuclear war and pandemics. Warnings about the potential?risks of advanced AI?have been coming thick and fast in recent months. Experts and industry leaders have been voicing dramatic concerns about the technology following the?viral popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Read in Insider https://lnkd.in/e9_9HrGJ #ai #artificialintelligence

Several of the biggest names in AI, including the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, have signed an attention-grabbing statement statement to make it crystal clear how serious they are about the threat of uncontrolled AI. Here’s the statement: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” While most entrepreneurs probably won’t be using AI for anything that’s going to bring about the end of days, it’s still an important reminder that this tech is a mystery even to its own creators, and is totally unregulated. Any way you slice it, the risk is high. But maybe the reward is worth it?What do you think? Should businesses wait to integrate AI until regulations have been established? Or run into the new era full steam ahead? Read more here on Inc. Magazine!

In a familiar move, #AI scientists and top executives have gathered behind an online statement to warn about the risks of AI. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” The Center for AI Safety’s statement said. The statement, released Tuesday, doesn’t have the specific call to action element that an earlier open letter from The Future of Life Institute (FLI) in March illustrated, though the result might end up being the same: directing discourse. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was among the more than 300 signatories, which included Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind; Kevin Scott, CTO at Microsoft; and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. But the problem is, there's a paradox: The same people warning about its threat are building, rapidly deploying the technology and making it easier for other organizations to do the same. https://lnkd.in/ez7MmSXU

A strategically vague statement on AI risk has critics up in arms once more. On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed by executives from OpenAI and DeepMind, Turing Award winners, and other AI researchers warning that their life's work could potentially extinguish all of humanity. The brief statement, which CAIS says is meant to open up discussion on the topic of "a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI," reads as follows: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." Considering its short length, the CAIS open letter is notable for what it doesn't include. For example, it does not specify exactly what it means by "AI," considering that the term can apply to anything from ghost movements in Pac-Man to language models that can write sonnets in the style of a 1940s wise guy gangster. Nor does the letter suggest how risks from extinction might be mitigated, only that it should be a "global priority." This isn't the first open letter about hypothetical, world-ending artificial intelligence dangers that we've seen this year—and experts who focus on AI ethics have once again responded, characterizing the latest message as breathless and bandwagoning. Read more below via Ars Technica: https://trib.al/UAecPsG

From OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to two Godfathers of AI, more than 350 experts, tech executives, and professors have signed a statement raising the risk of human extinction from AI. "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," said the statement published by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS). Another group, including Elon Musk, first raised the issue of the dangers of AI in April. CAIS director Dan Hendrycks told me that an invitation was extended to Musk, and hopefully, he’ll sign it this week. However, Meta executives were absent from the signatory list despite getting the invitations. The letter coincided with a meeting between US and EU officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Antony?Blinken and EU industry chief Thierry?Breton, in Sweden about setting up AI guardrails. "While we can discuss common principles, there cannot be a transatlantic or any other digital partnership that pre-empts the European regulatory framework," Breton said. Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gUk2TRJD

Artificial intelligence experts are warning that the technology could pose an existential risk to humanity, the same way nuclear war and global pandemics do. Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, joined the chorus in a new open letter warning about the "risk of extinction from AI." Read the full story on Fortune: https://lnkd.in/e5g_YDzw