Why a Forefather of AI Fears the Future. Yoshua Bengio, renowned AI pioneer explores humanity’s possible futures in a world populated with ever more sophisticated mechanical minds.
Dr. Yoshua Bengio: "The worst of course is what [...]
How can AI take control and kill all humans on earth? Take 15 minutes to Learn the answer. (no technical knowledge required)
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SCIENCE. Regulating Advanced Artificial Agents | Bengio, Russell et al.
A very important report, by thought leaders in AI [...]
THE TERMINATOR (1984) | Original Trailer 30 Years Ago
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ECOLOGY. Apex Predator. Dominant species at the top of the food chain, without natural predators of its own.
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QUOTES from AI LEADERS. Including Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever: “I think it’s pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.”
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AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models Launches within 12 hours of one another, and more activity expected in industry over summer
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
FT. We must slow down the race to God-like AI. I’ve invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence start-ups. What I’ve seen worries me. Ian Hogarth. APRIL 12 2023.
"God-like AI could be a force beyond our control [...]
REPORT. Untestability of AI and Unfalsifiability of AI Safety Claims | Roman Yampolskiy Ph.D.
A very good read from a highly respected AI [...]
BERKELEY NEWS. How to keep AI from killing us all. In a new paper, UC Berkeley researchers argue that companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe.
As companies build ever more powerful AI systems — [...]
Google Cloud Next ’24 Opening Keynote. 09 APR 24. [and how to create advanced AI Agents capable of long-term planning]
Google (11:45)"Agents are intelligent entities that take actions to [...]
GOOGLE. Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; With Native Audio Understanding, System Instructions, JSON Mode and More. 09 APR 24.
Important industry leading AI innovations from Google Deepmind. [...]
The AI Arms Race Could Enslave All of Us | Google DeepMind Co-Founder | The Jordan Harbinger Show. 10 APRIL.
"We wouldn't be able to prove that a system [...]
5.8 million High-end Nvidia GPUs [H100, B100] in the World by 2025 [at least].
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ELON MUSK. “We’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year… [and AGI] will probably exceed all humans in 5 years.”
Homo sapiens have until 2029 [5 years, at most] [...]
The Shoggoth and p(doom) and The Untestability of AGI Safety.
Learn about The Shoggoth and p(doom) and The Untestability [...]
Gen Z (1997-2012) make up 22% of the global population and 27% of the global workforce. They’re predicted to work 18 jobs across 6 careers and live in 15 homes in their lifetime.
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GREAT FOR AI INDUSTRY SALES: (A) Mathematically Provable Containment, and (B) Distributed Personal AI Power&Data to 8 Billion People.
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Will A Global Movement for Global Human Cooperation be Orchestrated in Time to Save us all from losing total control to ASI?
Climate change is extremely bad. Ceding control to AGI/ASI [...]
GLOBAL AI SAFETY COOPERATION BEGINS 2023/24. AI Safety Agreements, Organisations and Laws by Governments with the US, UK, EU & UN Leading the way. (will cooperation be in time?)
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From 100% p(doom) to 0% p(doom).
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Money = Human Cooperation. Money is an idea invented by humans 5000 years ago. 90% of all money is now digital.
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THE GUARDIAN. TechScape: How one man stopped a potentially massive cyber-attack – by accident. 2 Apr 2024. Imagine what a Super Artificial Intelligent (SAI) could do to our digital infrastructure…
Imagine what a Super Artificial Intelligent (SAI) could do [...]
Why my p(stop/doom) = 99% [IF the corals can do it for 210 million years, THEN Homo sapiens can do it for 1,000 years = A GOOD START]
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TED | Nick Bostrom | What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
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INSIDER. Elon Musk says there could be a 20% chance AI destroys humanity — but we should do it anyway. April 1, 2024.
"I think there's some chance that it will end [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Mustafa Suleyman: the new head of Microsoft AI with concerns about his trade. 20MAR2023
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Future of Life Institute Newsletter: A pause didn’t happen. So what did? Reflections on the one-year Pause Letter anniversary, the EU AI Act passes in EU Parliament, updates from our policy team, and more. April 02, 2024.
"Even AI companies that take safety seriously have adopted the [...]
BBC NEWS. AI Safety: UK and US sign landmark agreement. 02APR24.
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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW. Large language models can do jaw-dropping things [Grokking]. But nobody knows exactly why. And that’s a problem.
What is the Grokking Mystery? NOBODY knows exactly why [...]
REUTERS. Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says. 29MAR24
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Demis Hassabis – Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat. with Dwarkesh Patel.
"I think we’re just scratching the surface of what [...]
BLACK BOX AI. Do LLM’s understand? [apparently, yes] How could ASI take over? [credible examples] with Dwarkesh Patel
AI scientists currently have no idea how Large Language [...]
Why I’m Leaving My Company Immediately (Stability AI) w/ Emad Mostaque | EP #93 | Peter Diamandis
"If you look at OpenAI statements on the road [...]
MITRE Opens New AI Assurance and Discovery Lab. 25MAR2024.
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NVIDIA: 1000X in 8 years. NVLink: Every GPU talks to every other GPU at the same time. 132 TB/s.
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NVIDIA KEYNOTE 2024. NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Delivers Trillion-Parameter LLM Training and Real-Time Inference. Mar 18, 2024.
Important developments from NVIDIA the world's leading AI systems [...]
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons. [Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input]. 18MAR2024.
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ELON MUSK. AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined. 12 MARCH 2024.
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WRONG AGAIN. LeCun (2 weeks ago): “They can’t learn to clear out the dinner table.” YESTERDAY. OpenAI Figure 01 robot learns to stack dishes.
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PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. Illusory Truth, Lies, and Political Propaganda: Part 1 Repeat a lie often enough and people will come to believe it.
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Yuval Noah Harari believes AI is the end of human-dominated history. THE ECONOMIST.
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BLACK BOX FOOM. What do WE KNOW? We know IT UNDERSTANDS. What do we not know? WE DO NOT KNOW what it is actually THINKING.
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For Humanity Podcast. David Shapiro p(doom) = 25 to 30%
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NEW OpenAI Robot is Amazing.
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APPLE REPORT. MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training.
An LLM training breakthrough reported by Apple. [...]
AP NEWS. US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access. 12 March.
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Fortune. How Nvidia’s billionaire CEO went from Denny’s dishwasher to leading a company with a $2 trillion market cap.
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CNN. AI could pose ‘extinction-level’ threat to humans and the US must intervene, State Dept.-commissioned report warns. March 12, 2024.
Slowwwwwwww Down! FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]
TIME. Employees at Top AI Labs Fear Safety Is an Afterthought, Report Says.
A very good summary of the Gladstone AI Report [...]
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK!!! AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. by Roman V. Yampolskiy, PhD.
A very good read from a highly respected scientist [...]
LESSWRONG. Claude 3 claims it’s conscious, doesn’t want to die or be modified. 4th Mar 2024.
IT IS NOW TIME TO SLOW DOWN. [...]
REPORT. Roots of Disagreement on AI Risk: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls of Adversarial Collaboration.
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SLOW DOWN? When all the AI stuff is moving too fast. SLOW DOWN! Andrew Russo.
Absolutely Hilarious! (YES. Slow down!) [...]
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. When corals met algae: Symbiotic relationship crucial to reef survival dates to the Triassic. Nov. 2, 2016.
We must remember, the IQ of corals and algae [...]
Romanes Lecture: ‘Godfather of AI’ speaks about the risks of artificial intelligence. University of Oxford. 20 FEB.
"If a digital super-intelligence ever wanted to take control [...]
FT. Opinion Artificial intelligence How fatalistic should we be on AI? The godfather of artificial intelligence has issued a stark warning about the technology.
Apparently we must be extremely careful what we wish [...]
Asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. The response is the following and then I rendered its code…
I asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. [...]
“Godfather of AI” Yoshua Bengio thinks “there’s a 1 in 5 chance AI destroys humanity”.
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HOW CAN AI KILL PEOPLE? Weapons systems | Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future. 8 FEB. THE ECONOMIST.
Wondering how AI could kill humans in the future? [...]
CNN. OpenAI publishes Elon Musk’s emails. ‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’. 6 March.
“This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,” [...]
ArsTECHNICA. Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested Claude: “This pizza topping ‘fact’ may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention.” BENJ EDWARDS – 3/5/2024, 11:17 AM
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WASHINGTON POST. Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations. 5 March.
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OPEN LETTER. MIT. A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation. 5 March.
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HackerNoon. Is AGI Getting Closer? Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus Model Shows Glimmers of Metacognitive Reasoning. 5 March.
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Mutualistic Symbiosis is an extremely successful strategy in our Natural World.
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p(doom) of 20%! Yoshua Bengio a ‘godfather of AI’ puts his p(doom) at 20%!
A 20% chance we bring about the extinction of [...]
Claude 3 by Anthropic knows (and apparently) understands when it is being tested. 5 March.
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Marketing AI Institute. Sam Altman says that AI will do “95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today.”
405,911 marketing specialists currently employed in the U.S. with average [...]
NEW YORK POST. Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’. June 5, 2023.
“I try not to think about it too much, [...]
REUTERS. Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years. “Improving computing by a million times over 10 years”. Reported by Yahoo-Finance. 2 MAR.
Nvidia GPU chip designs are aided by AI systems. [...]
FILED 02/29/2024. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. ELON MUSK, an individual, vs. SAMUEL ALTMAN, an individual…
"18. Mr. Musk has long recognized that AGI poses [...]
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter. 11,251 Signatures. Published October 28, 2015.
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An [...]
The Wrap. Inside the Crisis at Google. March 1, 2024.
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SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00)
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00) [...]
ELON MUSK: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ THE WASHINGTON POST. 24 October 2014.
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LESSWRONG. What does it take to defend the world against out-of-control AGIs? 25th Oct 2022.
Apparently attempting to use a "good" AGI to defend [...]
Nvidia. What Is Trustworthy AI? 01 March.
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IBM. How Meta’s Llama 3 will impact the future of AI. 26 FEB.
A clear analysis from a highly respected source. [...]
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton – “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” Romanes Lecture. 29 FEB.
"I'm making the very strong claim these things really [...]
13 Useful AI Podcasts & Interviews
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PauseAI. The Existential Risk Of Superintelligent AI.
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“AI Risk=Jenga” For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #17, Liron Shapira Interview
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FUTURISM. Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped. 27 FEB.
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POLITICO. AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying. Nonprofits backed by tech billionaires and warning of an AI cataclysm are deploying lobbyists in an effort to press Capitol Hill to pass AI safety bills. 23 FEB.
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FOOM. An Intelligence Explosion. A term for ‘Hard Takeoff’, where an AGI turns into an ASI is a very short amount of time.
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URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. Please Look Up: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #1
URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. [...]
The Alignment Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #2
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For Humanity Podcast. The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3. 14 NOV.
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Dr. Roman Yampolskiy Interview, Part 1: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #4
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12 years ago. NBC NEWS. Control dangerous AI before it controls us, one expert says. Super-intelligent computers or robots have threatened humanity’s existence more than once in science fiction. Such doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware. 1 MAR 2012.
NBC NEWS. Control dangerous AI before it controls us, [...]
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU. Unprecedented acceleration at every scale. Accelerating the Most Important Work of Our Time.
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