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Rapid progress in Amnesty International It raised quite a few eyebrows, as big tech companies like to do Google, Your puppy, dead and OpenAI The race to create the smartest models is at a dizzying pace. Despite the potential benefits of what AI can do, there are only so many if not so many of them More fears About how it could negatively impact humanity.
So much so that more than 700 prominent public figures have done so I signed a statement Declaring a ban on super-AI until it is developed safely and until there is strong public acceptance.
The statement was published on Thursday, and says the development of artificial intelligence that can outperform humans at almost all cognitive tasks, especially with little supervision, is concerning.
Fears of everything from loss of freedom to national security risks and Human extinction They’re all top of mind, according to the group.
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Many of the signatures come from prominent figures, including “godfathers of artificial intelligence” Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, former policymakers and celebrities such as Kate Bush and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Elon Musk himself has previously warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence, going so far as to say that humans “Summon a demon“With artificial intelligence. Musk even I signed a similar letter Along with other technology leaders in early 2023, urging a pause on artificial intelligence.
The Future of Life Institute also released a National poll This week showed that only 5% of Americans surveyed support the current, rapid, unregulated development toward superintelligence. More than half of respondents – 64% – said super-AI should not be developed until it is proven safe and controllable, and 73% want strong regulation of advanced AI.
Interested parties can also sign the statement, with the current number of signatures as of this writing standing at 27,700.
