What does this even mean? OK, it's a priority. Not a high one, but still... somewhere in between coral bleaching and BPA, I guess?
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#12It'd be so much more convincing if each of the signatories actually articulated why he/she sees a reisk in there.
Without that, it pretty much looks like a list of invites to a VIP club...
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#13Nothing about this risk or the statement implies AGI is real, because the risk exists in wide scale use of existing technology. It's the risk of belief in algorithmically derived information, and deployment of autonomous, unsupervised systems. It's great they signed the statement. It's important.
> It's the risk of belief in algorithmically derived information, and deployment of autonomous, unsupervised systems.
And Sam Altman, head of one of the largest entities posing this exact risk, is one of the signatories. We can't take it too seriously, can we?
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#14What does this even mean? OK, it's a priority. Not a high one, but still... somewhere in between coral bleaching and BPA, I guess?
It's not like humankind is doing much to stop coral bleaching... despite corals being the living ground for 80% of marine species.
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#15What does this even mean? OK, it's a priority. Not a high one, but still... somewhere in between coral bleaching and BPA, I guess?
The EAs put it above climate change
It is coming before climate change. No matter which group "put it" reality doesn't care. Humanity will not get extinct in the next 10 years by climate but many AI scientists think there is a chance this happens with AI.
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#16Signatures from massive tech giants that on one hand are saying "hold on this is scary, we should slow down" but also "not us, we're doing fine. You should all slow down instead" mean that this is a bit of a empty platitude.
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#17I have yet to see a solution for “AI safety” that doesn’t involve ceding control of our most powerful models to a small handful of corporations.
It’s hard to take these safety concerns seriously when the organizations blowing the whistle are simultaneously positioning themselves to capture the majority of the value.
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#18This is way better than the open letter. It's much clearer and much more concise, and, maybe most importantly, it simply raises awareness rather than advocating for any particular solution. The goal appears to have been to make a statement that's non-obvious (to society at large) yet also can achieve agreement among many AI notables. (Not every AI notable agrees though--for example, LeCun did not sign, and I expect that he disagrees.)
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#20> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
risk of extinction due to AI? people have been reading too much science fiction. I would love to hear a plausible story of how AI will lead to human extinction that wouldn't happen with traditional non-AI tech. for the sake of conversation let's say non-AI tech is any broadly usable consumer technology before Jan 1 of 2020.