In the petition published on the website futureoflife.org, scientists and scholars ask for a deadline to establish security systems with new regulatory authorities, surveillance of AI systems, techniques that help distinguish between the real and the artificial and institutions capable of making in the face of the “dramatic economic and political disruption (especially for democracy) that AI will cause”.
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An uncontrollable AI that surpasses humans?
The director of Open AI, owner of ChatGPT, Sam Altman, acknowledged that he was “a little afraid” that his creation would be used for “large-scale disinformation, or for cyberattacks”.
“The company needs time to adapt,” he recently told broadcaster ABCNews.
“In recent months, we have seen AI labs launch into a headlong race to develop and deploy increasingly powerful digital brains that no one, not even their creators, can reliably understand, predict, or control,” they say.
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“Should we allow machines to flood our information channels with propaganda and lies? Should we automate all jobs, including rewarding ones? (…) Should we risk losing control of our civilization? These decisions should not be delegated to unelected technology leaders”, they conclude.
Who else signs this petition?
The co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak; members of the AI laboratory Google, DeepMind; the director of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, as well as American AI experts, academics and executive engineers from Microsoft, partner of OpenAI, sign the document.
(Source AFP)
Life imitates art?
The petition and the concerns contained within it are reminiscent of a classic science fiction film series beginning in the 1980s, “Terminator", which also resulted in the series “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, where men fight with an Artificial Intelligence called Skynet, based on robotics.
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On social media, the comparison is already being made:
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