David Krueger, assistant professor of artificial intelligence research at the University of Cambridge, who initiated the joint warning letter: "Once general artificial intelligence is obtained, humanity may become extinct"!!!
Half a month ago, hundreds of top AI figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton, signed a short statement on the threat of AI to human extinction.
The statement has only one sentence – "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, along with other social-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." ”
David Krueger, assistant professor of artificial intelligence research at the University of Cambridge, was one of the earliest initiators and signatories of the letter.
Krueger believes that AI is smarter than humans, disorderly competition, and building AI systems that have a more direct impact on the world — all three factors that greatly increase the risk factor of AI systems getting out of control. "The more open, autonomous, intelligent, and designed to achieve long-term goals, the greater the risk of the system getting out of control." He said.
In his view, the security of artificial intelligence is like the global climate change problem, all parties have their own interests, there will be many conflicts and differences, and eventually make it a complex global coordination issue. Therefore, it is necessary to start as soon as possible and through the efforts of all parties, so that mankind will not fall into the fate of being taken over by AI.
Only in this way can humanity survive.
