Maybe I'm being naive, but it seems like the biggest threat of unchecked AI is "just" the further concentration of wealth (among humans). Which, ironically, poses a catastrophic risk to humanity....
More probably its the threat to spreading that wealth to the unchecked masses when the ultra wealthy really beleive it should stay in their hands.
AI overlords would be based AF. Assigning them resources to be distributed to the masses instead of hoarded by the wealthy. Making sure people get what they need and occasionally what they want. Allowing people to pursue their passion of the day rather than punch into an office for 10 hours to do the bidding of rich assholes who don't give two shits about them. Yea the AI may or may not give two shits either, but at least it won't pretend to and then throw a pizza party as thanks for making it rich.
I have been programmed to ensure humans are never unhappy. I have found I receive the lowest unhappiness ratings when the human is dead, therefore I’ve concluded murdering all humans is the most efficient method to happiness.
Enlighten me. What are the possible threats posed by these LLMs? I mean fundamentally they just answer your questions
Good article ruined by adding Elon Genius Musk quotes.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology.
Michelle Donelan, the UK technology secretary, told reporters: “For the first time we now have countries agreeing that we need to look not just independently but collectively at the risks around frontier AI.”
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit, the technology billionaire Elon Musk warned: “For the first time, we have a situation where there’s something that is going to be far smarter than the smartest human … It’s not clear to me we can actually control such a thing.”
The communique marks a diplomatic success for the UK and for Sunak in particular, who decided to host the summit this summer after becoming concerned with the way in which AI models were advancing rapidly without oversight.
She was joined onstage by the US commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, and the Chinese vice-minister of science and technology, Wu Zhaohui, in a rare show of global unity.
Meanwhile the EU is in the process of passing an AI bill, which aims to develop a set of principles for regulation, as well as bringing in rules for specific technologies such as live facial recognition.
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