Statement on AI Risk

I mean... even orangutans can outperform humans at numerous tasks.

Computers have no intrinsic motivations, and they have real resource constraints.

I find the whole doomsday scenarios to be devoid of reality.

All that AI will give us is a productive edge. Humans will still do what humans have always done, AI is simply another tool at our disposal.

Yoshua Bengio: Professor of Computer Science, U. Montreal / Mila, Victoria Krakovna: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Mary Phuong: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Daniela Amodei: President, Anthropic, Samuel R. Bowman: Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYU and Anthropic, Helen King: Senior Director of Responsibility & Strategic Advisor to Research, Google DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman: CEO, Inflection AI, Emad Mostaque: CEO, Stability AI, Ian Goodfellow: Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind, Kevin Scott: CTO, Microsoft, Eric Horvitz: Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft, Mira Murati: CTO, OpenAI, James Manyika: SVP, Research, Technology & Society, Google-Alphabet, Demis Hassabis: CEO, Google DeepMind, Ilya Sutskever: Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI, Sam Altman: CEO, OpenAI, Dario Amodei: CEO, Anthropic, Shane Legg: Chief AGI Scientist and Co-Founder, Google DeepMind, John Schulman: Co-Founder, OpenAI, Jaan Tallinn: Co-Founder of Skype, Adam D'Angelo: CEO, Quora, and board member, OpenAI, Simon Last: Cofounder & CTO, Notion, Dustin Moskovitz: Co-founder & CEO, Asana, Miles Brundage: Head of Policy Research, OpenAI, Allan Dafoe: AGI Strategy and Governance Team Lead, Google DeepMind, Jade Leung: Governance Lead, OpenAI, Jared Kaplan: Co-Founder, Anthropic, Chris Olah: Co-Founder, Anthropic, Ryota Kanai: CEO, Araya, Inc., Clare Lyle: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Marc Warner: CEO, Faculty, Noah Fiedel: Director, Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind, David Silver: Professor of Computer Science, Google DeepMind and UCL, Lila Ibrahim: COO, Google DeepMind, Marian Rogers Croak: VP Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google

Without:

Geoffrey Hinton: Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Dawn Song: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Ya-Qin Zhang: Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University, Martin Hellman: Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, Yi Zeng: Professor and Director of Brain-inspired Cognitive AI Lab, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xianyuan Zhan: Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, Anca Dragan: Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Bill McKibben: Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College, Alan Robock: Distinguished Professor of Climate Science, Rutgers University, Angela Kane: Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna; former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Audrey Tang: Minister of Digital Affairs and Chair of National Institute of Cyber Security, Stuart Russell: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Andrew Barto: Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Jaime Fernández Fisac: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Diyi Yang: Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Gillian Hadfield: Professor, CIFAR AI Chair, University of Toronto, Vector Institute for AI, Laurence Tribe: University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Pattie Maes: Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Lab, Peter Norvig: Education Fellow, Stanford University, Atoosa Kasirzadeh: Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute, Erik Brynjolfsson: Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Kersti Kaljulaid: Former President of the Republic of Estonia, David Haussler: Professor and Director of the Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Stephen Luby: Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Stanford University, Ju Li: Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Chalmers: Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Daniel Dennett: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, Peter Railton: Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sheila McIlraith: Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Lex Fridman: Research Scientist, MIT, Sharon Li: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison, Phillip Isola: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, David Krueger: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Jacob Steinhardt: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Martin Rees: Professor of Physics, Cambridge University, He He: Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University, David McAllester: Professor of Computer Science, TTIC, Vincent Conitzer: Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford, Bart Selman: Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, Michael Wellman: Professor and Chair of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Jinwoo Shin: KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Dae-Shik Kim: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Frank Hutter: Professor of Machine Learning, Head of ELLIS Unit, University of Freiburg, Scott Aaronson: Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Max Tegmark: Professor, MIT, Center for AI and Fundamental Interactions, Bruce Schneier: Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School, Martha Minow: Professor, Harvard Law School, Gabriella Blum: Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law, Kevin Esvelt: Associate Professor of Biology, MIT, Edward Wittenstein: Executive Director, International Security Studies, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University, Karina Vold: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Victor Veitch: Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics, University of Chicago, Dylan Hadfield-Menell: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT, Mengye Ren: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University, Shiri Dori-Hacohen: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Connecticut, Jess Whittlestone: Head of AI Policy, Centre for Long-Term Resilience, Sarah Kreps: John L. Wetherill Professor and Director of the Tech Policy Institute, Cornell University, Andrew Revkin: Director, Initiative on Communication & Sustainability, Columbia University - Climate School, Carl Robichaud: Program Officer (Nuclear Weapons), Longview Philanthropy, Leonid Chindelevitch: Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Nicholas Dirks: President, The New York Academy of Sciences, Tim G. J. Rudner: Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, New York University, Jakob Foerster: Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Michael Osborne: Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford, Marina Jirotka: Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford

People are being replaced by robots and AI because the latter are cheaper. That's the market force.

Cheaper means that more value us created. As a whole, people get more service for doing less work.

The problem is that the money or value saved trickles up to the rich.

The only solutions can be, regulations,

- do not tax anymore based on income from doing actual work.

- tax automated systems on their added value.

- use the tax generated capital to provide for a basic income for everybody.

In that way, the generated value goes to people who lost their jobs and to the working class as well.

Note my comments are non-accusatory and only call for more transparency.