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This week, some of the leading experts on artificial intelligence have released a statement, warning that AI poses an existential threat to humanity, asking that mitigating the risk should be a global priority. So, what exactly is the risk? How can lines of code become a threat to humanity? Yoshua Bengio, one of the signatories of the statement, has a good overview, both nuanced and easy to understand. One of the key insights: «Even if we knew how to build safe superintelligent AIs, it is not clear how to prevent potentially rogue AIs to also be built.»
From Weekly Filet #444, in June 2023.
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