“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 signed by some of the biggest names in the field says.
May 30, 2023, 3:29 PM UTCMany of the biggest names in artificial intelligence have signed a short statement warning that their technology could spell the end of the human race.
The statement was posted to the website of the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization. It’s signed by almost 400 people, including some of the biggest names in the field — Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, as well as top AI executives from Google and Microsoft and 200 academics.
Meredith Whittaker, president of the encrypted messaging app Signal and chief adviser to the AI Now Institute, a nonprofit group devoted to ethical AI practices, mocked the statement as tech leaders overpromising their product. The statement comes two months after a different group of AI and tech leaders, including Tesla owner Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and IBM chief scientist Grady Booch, signed a petition calling for a ““ on all large-scale AI research that was open to the public. None of them have yet signed the new statement, and such a pause has not happened.
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