Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. “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 said. Sam Altman, CEO of […]
Dozens of artificial intelligence (AI) industry leaders, academics and even some celebrities on Tuesday (local time) called for reducing the risk of global annihilation due to AI, CNN Business reported.
Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial int
They say "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
Another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs, and public figures including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, veteran AI computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, MIT’s Max Tegmark, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, Grimes the musician, and populist podcaster Sam Harris have signed a statement calling for global attention on existential AI risk. …