A leading tech boss warned that artificial intelligence has a one in four chance of wiping out humankind.
Dario Amodei, of AI researchers Anthropic, said the technology would destroy the world by either going rogue or by being abused by humans.
He added the chance something goes catastrophically wrong on the scale of human civilisation might be 10 to 25 per cent.
However, he told the Logan Bartlett Show tech podcast that if we can avoid the downsides then this stuff about curing cancer, extending human lifespan, solving problems like mental illness, he didn’t think it was outside the scope of what this could do.
In response, campaigners Control AI told a newspaper outlet the same firms that thought there was a chance that their products would kill us all were the same ones calling the shots when it came to regulation.
The world’s first safety summit on AI will be hosted by Rishi Sunak next month.
Any technology can be used for good or evil, so it will come to pass that with AI it could be used for good or bad.
The thing with AI is that it can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with, it doesn’t feel empathy or guilt or fear and if it was used for evil it would never stop ever, until we are dead.
The point to look at about AI is man’s own actions because there is no logic in conflict, destruction or antagonism. Yet some have inherent failings and choose to throw lives aside and cause widespread devastation.
AI will ultimately be able to think for itself and act for itself and that’s a genuine concern, especially by the way it thinks of us and what it could do, and it won’t be long before our police and military will be taken over by AI and replaced with these so-called robots.
We have created something that is a million times more intelligent than us, then it continues to keep learning and then it doesn’t want to be controlled by a species that it considers less inferior. It will be able to access all of our technology and I’m sure it could find a way to wipe us all out.
AI appears like a thing of fantasy, but they are here, talking, thinking robots. Could they ultimately exist without us, well as I said it seems like a fantasy, but let’s not ignore the fact that they could!
As soon as its intelligence exceeds ours we are in big trouble.
There is a possibility that AI will be misused to confuse, manipulate and eventually destroy us. AI has become an everyday topic and there are some extremely powerful people that paid big money to fund its development – follow the money.
Any AI and technology in this day and age is bad for us. People are fixated on their phones and the internet. Everything that they do, everywhere that they go, that phone is glued to them.
I feel sorry for today’s children because there’s so much natural beauty out there, and outdoor enjoyment is being forgotten or ignored.
Apart from AI maybe wiping us out. It will take our jobs and stuff like this will transform our society far quicker than most people realise. And this will leave people utterly reliant upon the state to sustain them. This will create a subclass in society and put unsustainable and ever-increasing pressure upon the rest.
Social media has already caused adverse shifts in society. Once AI starts to manipulate people that will be the end of society and civilisation as we’ve known it for centuries.
I can see nothing but harm coming from this. Look at the internet and how it’s been used over the last 20 years, and they haven’t scratched the surface yet.
I fear much worse is yet to come for us all!
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