Sunday, June 04, 2023

AI Extinction one-sentence Statement Press Release by leading AI scientists/experts. Really!

This may well be alarmism and hysteria!

Not all AI scientists/experts are really smart! E.g. Yoshua Bengio is a leftist!

Geoffrey Hinton did not even bother to prepare a written statement why he recently resigned from Google for similar reasons.

To compare AI with pandemics is also quite dubious and possibly wrong! To even claim "Pandemics were not on the public’s radar before COVID-19." is totally absurd! E.g. ever heard of the medieval plague referred to as Black Death or the Spanish Flu of 1918? AI is a fairly new science. Its practitioners may not know much about human history! 😊

So far humanity has managed the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) quite well since 1945! Why should humanity not be able to manage AI?

There is also one glaring absence among the signers of this statement: Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist at Facebook/Meta), one of the famous Turing Award winner trio (Bengio, Hinton are the other two)

I have e.g. here written about Albert Einstein being a naive socialist!

"Distinguished AI scientists, including Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and leaders of the major AI labs, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, have signed a single-sentence statement from the Center for AI Safety that reads:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” ...
The increasing concern about the potential impacts of AI is reminiscent of early discussions about atomic energy. “We knew the world would not be the same,” J. Robert Oppenheimer once recounted. ...
“Pandemics were not on the public’s radar before COVID-19. It’s not too early to put guardrails in place and set up institutions so that AI risks don’t catch us off guard,” ..."

AI Extinction Statement Press Release | CAIS Top AI Scientists Warn: Risk of Extinction from AI on Scale with Nuclear War

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