Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?
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The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
By Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan. This is the year extinction risk from AI went mainstream. It has featured in leading publications, been invoked by 10 Downing Street, and mentioned in a White House AI Strategy document. But a powerful group of AI technologists thinks it still isn’t being taken seriously enough. They have signed a statement that claims: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” “Global priorities” should be the most important, and urgent, problems that…
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