OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the "godfather of artificial intelligence" Geoffrey Hinton are among hundreds of technology experts who are warning about the threat artificial intelligence is posing to humanity.
Scientists and tech industry leaders have issued a new warning about the existential threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity
"Mitigating the risk of AI extinction should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," they said in a brief statement.
Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist known as the "godfather of AI" who quit his job at Google last month to voice concerns about the uncontrolled development of new AI tools, was among hundreds of people who signed a letter on the issue .
Besides him, the letter was signed by Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.
Concerns include AI's ability to dramatically boost the spread of misinformation online, whether it will put people out of work altogether, and whether one would be able to influence the masses using artificial intelligence.
Experts describe the risk as "catastrophic" and "existential", in the sense that humanity could lose the ability to govern itself and become completely dependent on machines.
Countries around the world are scrambling to regulate the emerging technology.
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