Dozens of people, including professionals specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), journalists, policymakers and civilians, supported a statement posted on the Center For AI Safety website about the risks that the new technology could cause. Experts such as the heads of Google Deepmind, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI (the company that created ChatGPT), Sam Altman, supported the document by stating that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity.
In the document, signatories argue that “mitigating the risk of AI extinction should be a global priority, along with other risks on a societal scale, such as pandemics and nuclear war”, but there are those who say that fears are exaggerated, such as the professor LeCunn, who works at Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Other experts also believe the fear of AI wiping out humanity is unrealistic and a distraction from issues that are already a problem for the planet. Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University, says science fiction-like disaster scenarios are distracting.
“Current AI is nowhere near capable enough to make these risks materialize. And as a result, this speech diverts attention from the short-term harms of AI,” he says.
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Media coverage of the alleged “existential” threat of AI increased in March of this year, when experts including Tesla chief Elon Musk signed an open letter calling for a halt to development of the next generation of AI technology. One of the May articles by Liliane Primo, CEO and founder of Mobility Electric Mobility, VP of Instituto Êxito and VP of IT at Anefac, for Adnews, entitled ‘Stop the robots!’, described the episode in detail and brought more information.
The first letter asked whether we should “develop non-human minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, and replace us.” In contrast, the new campaign has a very short statement, intended to “open the discussion” on the issue.
* With information from the BBC
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