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Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI

The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.

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Artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction: AI experts

Trailblazers in AI technology, including OpenAI and Google Deepmind, have warned that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity.

The New Daily

AI poses a 'risk of extinction' to humanity, Sam Altman warns

The OpenAI CEO is one of hundreds of experts to warn against artificial intelligence's existential risk to humanity.

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Former Google safety boss sounds alarm over tech industry cuts and A.I. ‘hallucinations’

Arjun Narayan, now the safety chief at a news aggregation platform, thinks that A.I. output is largely a "black box" that can be hard to make sense of.

Fortune

The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation

The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: How much should AI concern us? We need real guidance, not vague alarmism

Recently, Geoffrey Hinton, the visionary expert who was at the heart of so much innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning, left Google. In an interview with CNN, he said, “I’m just a scientist who suddenly realized that these things are getting smarter than us. I want to sort of…

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai are now begging governments to regulate the A.I. forces they’ve unleashed

A.I. is “too important not to regulate well,” Pichai wrote, while Altman suggested that a body like the IAEA would soon be needed to oversee A.I.

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Labour should pledge £11bn to build ‘BritGPT’ AI, thinktank says

Labour for the Long Term says UK risks falling even further into dependence on US tech firms

The Guardian - UK

Leading A.I. expert says Big Tech's breakneck arms race threatens the 'very nature of truth'

One of the world's leading A.I. experts says the race by tech companies for A.I. supremacy is 'unhealthy,' and that breaking the cycle won't be easy.

Fortune

The threat of AI: Just how dangerous is artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but some experts believe it poses a real threat to humanity

Evening Standard

Evolution is making us treat AI like a human, and we need to kick the habit

The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”.

The Conversation

Google's Sundar Pichai thinks A.I. will spur 'big societal labor market disruptions'

The Google CEO thinks A.I. could have a massive impact on the labor market—he also thinks A.I. is the most "profound" thing that humanity is working on.

Fortune

OPINION - The impact of the AI revolution on geopolitics is going to be terrifying

Vladimir Putin, of all people, was the first world leader to grasp what a big deal artificial intelligence was for geopolitics. “Whoever becomes the leader,” he warned a group of schoolchildren more than five years ago, “will become the ruler of the world.” What, back then, seemed even to cutting-edge…

Evening Standard

Start using AI, or risk being replaced, warns IBM CCO

IBM’s chief commercial officer has some positive yet precautionary advice for managers that want to keep their job.

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Bill Gates says a pause on new A.I. research may be useless, even damaging

Experts are in the dark about the future of A.I., but it may already be a runaway train.

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Leaving the demons of Brexit behind

Brief letters: Labour’s election gains | Keir Starmer | Loathsome letterboxes | AI chatbots | Creating a monster

The New Daily

Expert sounds alarm of nation ‘walking blindly’ into an AI future

Australia needs to start investing in AI, Professor Geoff Webb warns, so we can protect our national interest and maybe generate some money.

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TechScape: AI is feared to be apocalyptic or touted as world-changing – maybe it’s neither

Too much discourse focuses on whether AIs are the end of society or the end of human suffering – I’m more interested in the middle ground

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Henry Kissinger says he wants to call attention to the dangers of A.I. the same way he did for nuclear weapons but warns it's a 'totally new problem'

“The speed with which artificial intelligence acts will make it problematical in crisis situations."

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The ‘godfather of A.I.’ says his technology is a bigger threat than climate change: ‘It's not at all clear what you should do’

"I wouldn't like to devalue climate change," Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters Friday. "But I think this might end up being more urgent."

The Guardian - US

Could an ‘emotional support’ chatbot help me de-stress? Only one way to find out

Startups say their AI-powered, therapist-trained bots can help us navigate life’s challenges. I decided to put them to the test

The Guardian - UK

‘A race it might be impossible to stop’: how worried should we be about AI?

Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note

The Guardian - AU

Rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable but should not be feared, ‘father of AI’ says

Jürgen Schmidhuber believes AI will progress to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and will pay no attention to people

Fortune

These are the 4 jobs that are set to disappear in a decade, and the ones that will take over

Consider the fax machine: All kinds of new tech roles are on the way in, and admin roles are out. There's still time to pivot.

Fortune

A top venture capitalist says China's ability to take risks and make more mistakes with A.I. tech could give it an edge against the U.S.

Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, one of OpenAI's early investors, says that beyond the U.S.-China tech rivalry, it's also about the values each country represents.

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