Statement on AI Risk
Geoffrey Hinton, et al.,
Center for AI Safety,
May 31, 2023
Here's the statement, in full, signed by Geoffrey Hinton and a host of others: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." I have two thoughts. First, it seems to me that mitigating the risk of extinction by anything should be a global priority. Have we learned nothing from Oumuamua? Second, the ongoing risk of extinction from global climate change is notable in its absence from this statement. The authors are aware, I guess, that even an extinction level event won't capture the public imagination without the right publicity.
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