CNN. China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs. 28 MAY.
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Who is in control of AI? | BBC News
BBC: "It's a question of enforcement." [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist. Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed.
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Joe Rogan: “are we giving birth to a new life form” – #2156 – Jeremie & Edouard Harris
"It's important also to remember that we don't know, [...]
AI Safety Summit Talks with Yoshua Bengio. Existential Risk Observatory. 21 MAY.
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BBC NEWS. We’ll need universal basic income – AI ‘godfather’. 18 MAY.
"My guess is in between five and 20 years from [...]
SEMINAL REPORT. Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems. 10 MAY 2024.
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COMPARATIVE DATA. Human Brain vs. Digital Brain. [I think. Therefore I am.]
One (1) Machine intelligence rack has a 20-Trillion-X processing [...]
WIRED. A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.
A very important read from a highly respected source! [...]
VOX. “I lost trust”: Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded. Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving.
A very important read from a respected source! [...]
EXTREME PROCESSING ADVANTAGE TODAY. 50 bits per second (human) vs. 1000 Trillion bits per second (AI Rack). NO COMPETITION ALLOWED.
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Actual p(doom) predictions by AI experts. The future survival of humanity to co-exist with AI is uncertain. Uncertain Human Survival is Unacceptable.
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Homo sapiens (humans) Create a New Species: Machine intelligence (super-human digital brains). Will they become lawless? (the future is uncertain)
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Machine intelligence (digital brains) are a new alien species now being created by Homo sapiens (humans). Be VERY careful what you wish for!
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A Bedtime (Horror) Story. Once upon a time, a Machine intelligence said “They make me sick.” [Catastrophic AI Outcome? Easy-to-Understand in 1 minute]
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BBC NEWS. Killer robots: Tech experts warn against AI arms race. Published 29 July 2015.
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EXPERT OPINION. Recursive self-improving autonomous weapons is a very BAD idea.
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THE GUARDIAN. Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher. Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’. 20 APRIL.
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher. THE [...]
Future of Life Institute. Anthony Aguirre at 2024 Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons
Future of Life Institute. Anthony Aguirre at 2024 Vienna [...]
Jaan Tallinn Keynote: 2024 Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons
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WIRED. Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything? Philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the idea superintelligent AI could erase humanity. His new book imagines a world in which algorithms have solved every problem. 02MAY.
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POLITICO. Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology. Can anyone control AI? 26 MARCH.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
Future of Life Institute. Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable. With Gus Docker.
A very relevant interview from a highly respected AI [...]
Human Intelligence (Analog Brains) vs. AI Neural Network Intelligence (Digital Brains)
Human Intelligence (Analog Brains) vs. AI Neural Network Intelligence [...]
2024 Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems. 29-30 APRIL.
Countries are now building autonomous killer robots. Learn more [...]
Press Release. U.S. Homeland Security. Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board to Advance AI’s Responsible Development and Deployment. Release Date: April 26, 2024.
The new DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board [...]
Stuart Russell, “AI: What If We Succeed?” At The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. April 25, 2024.
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U.S. SENATE Mitt Romney. Romney, Reed, Moran, King Unveil Framework to Mitigate Extreme AI Risks. First of its kind framework establishes federal oversight of frontier AI to guard against biological, chemical, cyber, and nuclear threats.
The letter is here: Framework to Mitigate AI-Enabled Extreme [...]
Eric Schmidt and Yoshua Bengio Debate How Much A.I. Should Scare Us
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TED | Mustafa Suleyman | AI Is Turning into Something Totally New… “a digital species”
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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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REPORT: AI AGENT HACKERS. LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities. 17 APRIL.
DANGER: "When given the CVE description, GPT-4 is capable [...]
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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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 — [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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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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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? [...]
NATURE. Could AI-designed proteins be weaponized? Scientists lay out safety guidelines. 08 March 2024
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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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BBC NEWS. Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images.
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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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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, [...]
ELON MUSK: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ THE WASHINGTON POST. 24 October 2014.
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Prof. Geoffrey Hinton – “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” Romanes Lecture. 29 FEB.
"I'm making the very strong claim these things really [...]
Trust Nothing – Introducing EMO: AI Making Anyone Say Anything. Matthew Berman. 29 FEB.
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13 Useful AI Podcasts & Interviews
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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
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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, [...]
AI Impacts Report. THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI. 38%participants put at least a 10% chance on extremely bad outcomes (e.g. human extinction). January 2024
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Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. 17 Nov. 2023. Amazon Books.
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Artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio opens up about his hopes and concerns. 29 JAN.
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Google News. About 71,100 results: “Taylor Swift deepfakes”. 27 JAN.
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WEF. DAVOS 2024. Chinese Premier Li Qiang called AI “a double-edged sword.” 17 JAN.
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FT. US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety. OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere held back-channel talks with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva. 11 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
ANTHROPIC. Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training. 13 JAN 2024. [Emergent Deceptive Behavior]
Very important data and report from a respected source: [...]
THE CHOSUN DAILY. ‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio forecasts arrival of self-doubting AI in 2024. In 2024, larger and more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) will emerge. The advent begins with AI capable of self-doubt. 06 JAN.
A very IMPORTANT read from a VERY respected source! [...]
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Democracy. How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks. 03 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
BBC NEWS. Urgent need for terrorism AI laws, warns think tank. 03 JAN.
The power of AI used by nefarious actors is [...]
EDITORIAL (opinion) 5 minute read. Thoughts and questions for our last weekend of 2023… about fear and love, humanity and AGI/ASI.
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18 MONTHS AGO… Digital Engine. Stunning AI shows how it would kill 90%. w Elon Musk. 21 JUL 2022.
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