Artificial intelligence poses 'risk of extinction,' tech execs and experts warn

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More than 350 top executives and researchers in artificial intelligence have signed a statement urging policymakers to see the serious risks posed by unregulated AI, warning the future of humanity may be at stake.

"There are many ways that [AI] could go wrong," said Hendrycks. He believes there is a need to examine which AI tools may be used for generic purposes and which could be used with malicious intent."It would be difficult to tell if an AI had a goal different from our own because it could potentially conceal it. This is not completely out of the question," he said.ChatGPT boss urges U.S.

The letter coincided with the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in Sweden where politicians are expected to talk about regulating AI. The idea that machines can converse with us, and humans don't realize they are talking to an AI system rather than another person, is scary, he added. "Are they going to behave well with us? There are a lot of questions that are very, very concerning and there's too much unknown."Too many 'unknowns' about machines that can converse with us, says professorUniversité de Montréal computer science professor Yoshua Bengio says the advent of machines that can converse with us is both scary and exciting, and the stakes are 'just too high' to ignore questions about how humans will interact with them.

Krishnan said AI regulation is "still playing catch up" but there needs to be a "good balance" to ensure technologies are developed and used safely without hindering improvements.24:38 He offered the example of AI being used to determine who should be approved for a credit card. If an AI tool is trained to work with data about past lending decisions that already "have a degree of bias," he said the algorithm could further perpetuate that bias in its predictions.Luke Stark, who studies the social, ethical and cultural impacts of AI at Western University in London, Ont., agreed.

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