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AI leaders warn of 'intelligence explosion'; researchers cite extinction risk

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Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta have warned that AI could soon self-improve faster than humans can keep up with, calling for oversight into automated AI research. Separately, Palisade Research released interviews with AI researchers, including Geoffrey Irving and Neel Nanda, who warned that superintelligence is 'exactly as dangerous as it sounds,' with Irving estimating a coin-flip chance of human extinction.

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  1. Techmeme
    AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" and call for oversight into automated AI research (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

    Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal : AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending “intelligence explosion” and call for oversight into automated AI research — Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta say AI could soon self-improve faster than humans can keep up with

  2. The Verge AIStevie Bonifield
    AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

    "The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a nonprofit studying AIs' capabilities and motivations, collected and launched the interviews on frominside.ai . Several of the researchers joined Irving in warning about the possibility AI could drive humans extinct. Neel Nanda, a Google DeepMind research scientist, said there's "at least a 10 percent chance that it causes human e … Read the full story at The Verge.

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