[LINK] Hundreds sign statement "AI is a doomsday extinction-level risk"

[Stephen Loosley]

https://www.safe.ai

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS — pronounced 'case') is a San Francisco-based research and field-building nonprofit.

We believe that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to profoundly benefit the world, provided that we can develop and use it safely. However, in contrast to the dramatic progress in AI, many basic problems in AI safety have yet to be solved.

Our mission is to reduce societal-scale risks associated with AI by conducting safety research, building the field of AI safety researchers, and advocating for safety standards.

https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

Statement on AI Risk

AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk.

AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI. Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks.

The succinct statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion. It is also meant to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI’s most severe risks seriously.

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.


Signatories:

Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Yoshua Bengio
Professor of Computer Science, U. Montreal / Mila

Demis Hassabis
CEO, Google DeepMind

Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI

Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic

Dawn Song
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Ya-Qin Zhang
Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University

Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI

Shane Legg
Chief AGI Scientist and Co-Founder, Google DeepMind

Martin Hellman
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford

James Manyika
SVP, Research, Technology & Society, Google-Alphabet

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

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