Why care about AI risk?

Superintelligent AI ending humanity sounds like a movie plot. AI scientists think it’s a likely outcome.

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Public statement, May 2023

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

Signed by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, the heads of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, and hundreds of AI scientists and professors.

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Answers are written by a large language model that draws on our AI safety knowledge database, so they stay on topic and point to sources.

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Like any AI it can make mistakes, including citing a link that doesn’t exist. Check the sources and push back; it is meant to be argued with.

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