Artificial intelligence
Experts urge focus on the risks of AI
A number of leading experts on artificial intelligence see the technology as a potential threat to humanity and have called for the risks to be taken seriously.
One of the signatories of the short statement is the head of ChatGPT inventor OpenAI, Sam Altman. The chatbot ChatGPT, which can formulate sentences at the level of a human, has triggered a new hype around artificial intelligence in recent months.
The statement published on Tuesday consists of just one sentence, but it sounds dramatic: "Reducing the risk of annihilation by AI should be a global priority alongside other risks of societal scale, such as pandemics and nuclear war." The non-profit organization, on whose website the text appeared, cites the potential dangers of artificial intelligence in warfare, for example in the air or through the development of new chemical weapons. The San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety also warns of the spread of false information using the technology and a future in which humanity could become completely dependent on machines.
A few weeks ago, another organization published an open letter signed by tech billionaire Elon Musk, among others, proposing a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence. The aim of the break is to find regulatory approaches for the technology. It was later revealed that Musk had founded his own AI company shortly beforehand.
Among the signatories of the new statement are Demis Hassabis, the head of Google's sister company DeepMind, which specializes in AI, and Geoffrey Hinton, one of the leading researchers in the field.
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