On 31 May, Industry leaders and IT executives warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out humans.
They rank the threat on a par with nuclear war and pandemics.
Senior executives from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic signed on to a statement urging AI dangers to be a “global priority.”
It was signed by around 350 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘Godfather of AI’, who resigned from Google a month ago, claiming that the tools he helped design may end civilization.
According to a statement released yesterday (31 May) by the Centre For AI Safety, “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
While artificial intelligence language tools like ChatGPT can potentially displace many jobs, the more significant concern is that the technology might cause war by weaponizing “fake news,” or be used to build chemical weapons or precision air attacks.
Another worry mentioned by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Twitter, is that AI systems may attempt to compete with humans.
On its website, the Centre For AI Safety highlights concerns such as the technology used to power autonomous weapons, increase aerial warfare, perform cyber attacks, and quickly sift through compounds to select the best ones to utilize for biological weapons.
