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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.
But artifical intelligence will not tell us how we got life,
Source:
Hsu, Jeremy. 2022. A third of scientists working
on AI say
it could cause global disaster. New Scientist. 20 September.