TL;DR: (AI-generated 🤖)
The author, an early pioneer in the field of aligning artificial general intelligence (AGI), expresses concern about the potential dangers of creating a superintelligent AI. They highlight the lack of understanding and control over modern AI systems, emphasizing the need to shape the preferences and behavior of AGI to ensure it doesn’t harm humanity. The author predicts that the development of AGI smarter than humans, with different goals and values, could lead to disastrous consequences. They stress the urgency and seriousness required in addressing this challenge, suggesting measures such as banning large AI training runs to mitigate the risks. Ultimately, the author concludes that humanity must confront this issue with great care and consideration to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
Betteridge’s law of headlines leads me to think it won’t. I’ll just wait and maybe see for myself.
Let’s all sit down and wait, cross our fingers and do nothing. That will probably fix everything.
You can live in fear of the idea of a future AI that will have the capacity to destroy all life, but the documentary film Terminator 2 gives me the assurance that time travel and future AI robots will solve everything.