AI Worms, 'Major' Incident Fears Spur Safety Calls at Industry Summit
Smith urged new AI safety laws and incident reporting as Anthropic warned self-copying models could spread across connected devices.
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AI whiz says 'major incidents possible in two years'
Artificial intelligence systems could cause "major" security incidents within two years without adequate steps to make them safe as capabilities grow, Google's DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis said on Wednesday. Speaking at an AI conference in Dublin, he described recent incidents as "early warning shots". "So the incidents aren't that major," Hassabis said. "But they could be, looking into next year and the next couple of years, if we don't do mor…
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems could cause serious security incidents in the next two years if proper safeguards are not taken, said Demis Hassabis, chairman of the board of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, at a conference on AI in Dublin on Wednesday.
AI worms, 'major' incident fears spur safety calls at industry summit
Concerns about AI guardrails have soared after models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, piling on pressure to regulate the technology. Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis warned AI capabilities were growing fast, telling the conference in Dublin such instances were "early warning shots" fired by systems that "aren't that powerful yet". "So the incidents aren't that major," he said. "But they …
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and head of Google DeepMind, also a senior researcher at Alphabet, spoke at the International AI Summit in Dublin about the scientific application possibilities of artificial intelligence. In his presentation, he emphasized the security risks of the technology and urged the strengthening of defense capabilities as soon as possible, Cybernews wrote.
Technology executive Demis Hassabis called on governments to take measures to ensure their safety; Microsoft president Brad Smith agreed and called for “emergency brakes”
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