Tech pros weigh in on dangers of Artificial intelligence
By Abimbola Mohammed
The growing concern about the safety of artificial intelligence has gained momentum as prominent experts in the technological world lend their voices to the advocacy for Ai control.
Recently a statement signed by top artificial intelligence business leaders, engineers, policymakers, experts and researchers stating that the need to reduce the “risk of extinction” posed by AI should be an international priority. They also issued a new warning about the existential threat they believe AI poses to humanity.
The signed statement published by a San Francisco-based non-profit, the Center for AI Safety reads: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
The statement which is the latest attempt to slow the development of the controversial and complex technology was signed by technology bigwigs like Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind CEO, Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of AI and Kevin Scott, Microsoft CTO among others.
According to Hinton in an interview with BBC, the dangers of AI chatbots were “quite scary,” and that today they are not more “intelligent than us,” as far as he can tell,” but they “soon may be.”
Hinton resigned from Google, with the desire to communicate about the dangers of ChatGPT and similar products freely and openly.
It could be recalled that Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla, Steve Wozniak Apple co-founder and former United States of America presidential candidate Andrew Yang, joined hundreds of people calling for a six-month pause on Artificial Intelligence (AI) experiments in an open letter or we could face “profound risks to society and humanity.”
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gate also believes there’s reason to be cautious, but that the good can outweigh the bad if managed properly. Since recent developments have made super-intelligent machines possible much sooner than initially thought, the time is now to determine what dangers artificial intelligence poses.
Also, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai committed to an “AI Pact” in a meeting last week with Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market.
The meeting with top European Union officials, which took place on Wednesday, involves creating a set of voluntary rules or standards while formal regulations for applying AI are underway.
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