Why some prominent AI people aren't worried about AI doom. They disagree on more things than you might think!
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Community of volunteers who work together to mitigate the risks of AI. We want to internationally pause the development of superintelligent AI until it's safe.
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- AGI is not inevitable. It requires hordes of engineers with million dollar paychecks. It requires a fully functional and unrestricted supply chain of the most complex hardware. It requires all of us to allow these companies to gamble with our future.things are accelerating. pretty much nothing needs to change course to achieve agi imo. worrying about timelines is idle anxiety, outside your control. you should be anxious about stupid mortal things instead. do your parents hate you? does your wife love you?
- How do people cope when they hear AI might be the thing that ends their life?
- One of the many forms of AI that we're not asking to pause.Artificial intelligence detects breast cancer 5 years before it develops #MedEd #MedTwitter #SCIENCE #technology #oncology #Cancer #Diagnosis
- Bad news. France opted to host an AI Safety Summit in November 2024, but several of our sources confirm it has been postponed to February 2025. It has also been renamed to “AI Action Summit”, dropping the all-important safety focus. Safety will be a minor part of the summit,
- Kurzgesagt just released an absolutely amazing video on superintelligence and why this could be the most dangerous thing to ever be built.
- Professor Geoffrey Hinton has just won a Nobel prize for his work in AI. Hinton believes there's a large chance AI will kill us all. He is "kinda 50/50" on the likelihood of AI taking over. And he's far from alone in his worries. The top 3 most cited AI researchers (Hinton,
- Experts don't want it, the public don't want it, even many working at the frontier AI companies don't want it. Governments need to put an end to the suicidal race to build superintelligence.A stunningly broad coalition has come out against Skynet: AI researchers, faith leaders, business pioneers, policymakers, NatSec folks and actors stand together, from Bannon & Beck to Hinton, Wozniak & Prince Harry. We stand together because we want a human future.
- Bernie Sanders on the threat of losing control to AI - "this is not science fiction."
- Emmett Shear, new OpenAI CEO: - is in favor of slowing down - p(doom) of 5 to 50% Nice
- Replying to @RichardSSuttonAI replacing humans is not inevitable, and most people don't want it to happen. There's nothing inevitable about a small group of people racing towards AGI. People can be stopped. Governments can impose regulations. We have a choice in this. Most people don't want to be
