Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”

We Are Risking Developing AI Beyond Human Supervision, Expert Warns

David Krueger says AI's integration into warfare makes international agreements halting development ever more urgent.

Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”

Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, warns that “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity, which he says is progressing at a rate much faster than current levels of human supervision can manage. Public statements from AI companies that

Google DeepMind chief AI officer signed a statement warning AI could cause human extinction—she says odds are 'not zero' but disagrees with Elon Musk

Elon Musk says money won't matter by 2036, and Jeff Bezos says we'll live in space by 2045. Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim says nobody actually knows that.

Google DeepMind’s chief AI officer warns that the risk of AI causing human extinction is not zero

Lila Ibrahim, Google DeepMind’s chief AI officer, says the possibility of AI causing humanity’s extinction is “not zero,” as safety tests reveal how autonomous systems can misuse access to emails, browsers and sensitive company information. Artificial intelligence could deliver major scientific and economic breakthroughs, but the possibility that it eventually poses an existential threat to […] The post Google DeepMind’s chief AI officer warns t…