AI Dangers

FT. OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley. The tech industry is divided over how best to develop AI, and whether it’s possible to balance safety with the pursuit of profits. 24 NOV.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-25T14:33:23+00:00November 25, 2023|

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THE GUARDIAN. OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’. Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-24T03:07:53+00:00November 24, 2023|

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REUTERS. Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say. 23 NOV.

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DAILY MAIL. Disgruntled OpenAI workers who left BEFORE Sam Altman’s brief ouster claim they were ‘pushed out’ to transition it to a for-profit model. A letter allegedly written by former OpenAI employees details ‘dishonest’ and ‘manipulative’ leadership by Altman and president Greg Brockman. The letter coincides with Altman’s reinstatement to the company five daysafter his shock ousting.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-24T04:26:40+00:00November 22, 2023|

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THE WASHINGTON POST. These look like prizewinning photos. They’re AI fakes. Artificially generated images of real-world news events proliferate on stock image sites, blurring truth and fiction. 23 NOV.

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BLOG. OpenAI LP. We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission. 19 MAR 2019.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-21T12:41:54+00:00November 21, 2023|

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HUFFPOST. New OpenAI Leader’s Chilling ‘Doom’ Warning May Scare Your Pants Off. Emmett Shear voiced his concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a resurfaced clip. 20 NOV.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T13:30:51+00:00November 21, 2023|

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Opinion: The drama around Sam Altman is an urgent warning. 21 NOV.

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THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI stands by its ouster of Sam Altman. Emmett Shear named interim CEO. Talks to renegotiate Altman’s return Sunday broke down despite pressure by employees and investors to reinstate him.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-21T12:23:54+00:00November 20, 2023|

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FORTUNE. Who is Ilya Sutskever, the man at the center of OpenAI’s leadership shakeup—and why is he so worried about AI superintelligence going rogue? 18 NOV.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-20T11:04:53+00:00November 19, 2023|

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI. The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new A.I. systems. 18 NOV.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-19T09:26:03+00:00November 18, 2023|

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Don’t Look Up – The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T23:52:01+00:00November 14, 2023|

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Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. Russell, Bengio et al. 12 NOV23.

Peter A. Jensen2024-10-06T13:38:30+00:00November 12, 2023|

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THE GUARDIAN. Interview. AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari. Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers. 09 NOV

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-11T09:19:40+00:00November 9, 2023|

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THE GUARDIAN. TechScape: Why Sunak’s ‘vanity jamboree’ on AI safety was actually … a success. Against the odds, world leaders agreed on a landmark declaration to bring stronger oversight to AI.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-08T09:29:35+00:00November 7, 2023|

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OXFORD Languages: “Inexorable. Adjective. Impossible to stop or prevent.” — Is the industrial progress of AI to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) inexorable?

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-06T11:52:00+00:00November 6, 2023|

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INTERVIEW. Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak My conversation with @elonmusk

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-03T10:30:03+00:00November 3, 2023|

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DoD). Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy Accelerating Decision Advantage. 02 NOV.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-29T10:05:10+00:00November 2, 2023|

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Global Leaders Warn A.I. Could Cause ‘Catastrophic’ Harm At a U.K. summit, 28 governments, including China and the U.S., signed a declaration agreeing to cooperate on evaluating the risks of artificial intelligence. 01 NOV 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-02T02:03:46+00:00November 2, 2023|

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AI Summit at Bletchley Park, UK. Elon Musk: ‘AI is one of the the biggest threats to humanity’. 01 NOV 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-01T15:35:56+00:00November 1, 2023|

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GOV UK. Guidance AI Safety Summit: confirmed attendees (governments and organisations) Updated 31 October 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-02T01:48:56+00:00November 1, 2023|

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FLI recommendations for the UK Global AI Safety Summit Bletchley Park, 1-2 November 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-01T10:01:05+00:00November 1, 2023|

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Existential Risk Observatory. AI Summit Talks featuring Professor Stuart Russell. 31 OCT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-02T02:17:53+00:00October 31, 2023|

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THE WHITE HOUSE. FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. OCTOBER 30, 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T21:18:23+00:00October 30, 2023|

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WANTED: Provably Safe AI for The Benefit of People, Forever.

Peter A. Jensen2024-11-20T08:46:18+00:00October 30, 2023|

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Existential Risk Observatory. Reducing human extinction risks by informing the public debate.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T07:15:08+00:00October 30, 2023|

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BBC NEWS. Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Michelle Donelan MP, secretary of state for science and technology. And Alex Karp, CEO Palantir.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-29T13:54:22+00:00October 29, 2023|

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GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies Top frontier AI firms have outlined their safety policies to boost transparency and encourage the sharing of best practice within the AI community. 27 OCT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T08:51:06+00:00October 27, 2023|

GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety [...]

Control AI. MAGIC Video (1:49) “Why Are We Letting Them Do This?”

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T07:19:53+00:00October 27, 2023|

Control AI. MAGIC Video (1:49) "Why Are We [...]

THE GUARDIAN. Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert. MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-04T08:42:14+00:00October 26, 2023|

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Anthony Aguirre . Close the Gates to an Inhuman Future: How and why we should choose to not develop superhuman general-purpose artificial intelligence. October 22, 2023

Peter A. Jensen2024-11-20T08:47:25+00:00October 22, 2023|

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Superintelligence (2014) bestseller by Nick Bostrom with Book Reviews [and 4 possible methods to Control Superintelligence]

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-18T13:07:07+00:00October 16, 2023|

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What is P(doom)? P(doom) is the percentage chance that AI scientists think AI is going to wipe out all of humanity. This is what Bing and ChatGPT and Leading AI Researchers say about P(doom).

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T13:33:17+00:00October 16, 2023|

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DEADLY MATTER OF FACT: CONTAINMENT of AI/AGI is A COMMON PROBLEM. All of HUMANITY Problem. OUR Problem. THEIR Problem. HIS Problem. HER Problem. MY Problem. YOUR Problem. NOW.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-15T15:17:57+00:00October 15, 2023|

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BBC HARDtalk. Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley – Stuart Russell. 14 OCT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T09:43:00+00:00October 14, 2023|

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OpenAI Alignment Team Lead: Jan Leike ‘s P(doom) is, like, 10-90%.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T13:32:49+00:00October 14, 2023|

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AI Safety Weekly. AI Tracker #6: Russian Roulette, Anyone?

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-14T00:48:53+00:00October 14, 2023|

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Existential Risk Observatory. Does interpretability change everything? 07 OCT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T07:37:00+00:00October 7, 2023|

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BBC NEWS. How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen. 06 OCT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-09T06:55:20+00:00October 6, 2023|

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REPORT. Low-Resource Languages Jailbreak GPT-4. 03 OCT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-14T03:18:09+00:00October 3, 2023|

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Piers Morgan vs Yuval Noah Harari On AI | The Full Interview | 2 Oct 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-19T15:54:26+00:00October 2, 2023|

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My views on “doom”. Paul Christiano. AI Alignment. 3 min read. 27 APRIL

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-18T15:29:22+00:00October 1, 2023|

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Stuart Russell. Is AI an Existential Threat to Humanity? Southbank Centre, London. 28 SEPT 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-30T10:01:12+00:00September 28, 2023|

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. – Carl Sagan. No evidence here. None whatsoever… “Don’t Fear the Terminator”

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T22:30:40+00:00September 26, 2023|

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Mustafa Suleyman: The AI Pioneer Reveals the Future in ‘The Coming Wave’ | Intelligence Squared | 16 SEPT 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-19T16:18:19+00:00September 16, 2023|

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CBS. 60 MINUTES. “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton: The 60 Minutes Interview. 09 OCT 2023.

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OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe | Jan Leike

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-16T03:25:31+00:00August 22, 2023|

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THE WASHINGTON POST. ETHICAL ISSUES. AI is acting ‘pro-anorexia’ and tech companies aren’t stopping it. 07 AUG 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T08:52:27+00:00August 7, 2023|

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Written Testimony of Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science The University of California, Berkeley Before the U.S. Senate Commitee on the Judiciary Subcommitee on Privacy, Technology, & the Law

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-16T04:05:27+00:00August 2, 2023|

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THE GUARDIAN. Christopher Nolan: ‘Very strong parallels’ between Oppenheimer and scientists worried about AI. 21 JUL 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-27T03:05:28+00:00July 21, 2023|

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THE WASHINGTON POST. Top tech firms sign White House pledge to identify AI-generated images. Google, and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI agreed to the voluntary safety commitments, part of an escalation in the Biden administration’s interest in the area as it readies an AI-focused executive order. July 21, 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T09:06:06+00:00July 21, 2023|

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CNN — AI is already linked to layoffs in the industry that created it. 04 JULY 2023.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech. 02 JULY 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T09:44:40+00:00July 2, 2023|

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FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks. by Yoshua Bengio. 24 June 2023.

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An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks. Authors Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika, Thomas Woodside. 21 JUNE 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T10:04:36+00:00June 22, 2023|

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NEW STATESMAN. Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation? The founders of AI are divided over what’s next. 21 JUNE 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-09T07:12:16+00:00June 21, 2023|

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TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI. Stuart Russell. Andrew Critch. 16 JUNE 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T10:10:24+00:00June 16, 2023|

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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Department of Computer Science and Technology. Security Group. Will GPT models choke on their own exhaust? 2023-06-06.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T10:28:56+00:00June 6, 2023|

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INNOVATIONS ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. June 2, 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-20T15:41:42+00:00June 2, 2023|

THE WASHINGTON POST. INNOVATIONS. ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they [...]

Model Evaluation For Extreme Risks of AI | Google DeepMind and OpenAI Paper. WES ROTH.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-09T07:20:28+00:00May 26, 2023|

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CNBC NEWS. Microsoft CEO Nadella talks concerns around A.I. and its impact on jobs, education. 17 MAY 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-20T15:41:54+00:00May 18, 2023|

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ANTHROPIC. Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models. 03 OCT 2023

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-26T08:12:45+00:00October 3, 2022|

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Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach by Roman V. Yampolskiy (2016)

Peter A. Jensen2024-02-25T21:16:31+00:00December 31, 2016|

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