Friday 23 September 2022

AI could cause a global disaster

 


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Joel Kontinen 


If you an AI scientist, the chance is that you’ll believe that AI decisions could cause a catastrophe as bad as all-out nuclear war already in this century.

Stephen Hawking has warned of the dangers of AI, and Elon Musk has tweeted that artificial intelligence is a bigger threat than North Korea.  

These survey findings come from a survey covering the opinions of 327 researchers who had recently co-authored papers on AI research in natural language processing. In recent years, there have been big advances in this area, with the increased use of large language AI models

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Source:

Hsu, Jeremy. 2022.  A third of scientists working on AI say it could cause global disaster. New Scientist20 September.