AI Existential Risk

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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CNBC. Richard Branson and Oppenheimer’s grandson urge action to stop AI and climate ‘catastrophe’. 15 FEB.

Peter A. Jensen2024-02-18T12:41:55+00:00February 18, 2024|

More precisely, "Safety Engineering" is the solution for Safe [...]

The Elders and Future of Life Institute release open letter calling for long-view leadership on existential threats. 15 FEB.

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Sam Altman at World Government Summit. What keeps Altman up at night? “very subtle societal misalignments where we just have these systems out in society and through no particular ill intention um things just go horribly wrong”

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Geoffrey Hinton | Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence? 2 FEB

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Yuval Noah Harari. “Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.”

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Eric Topol. Ground Truths. Geoffrey Hinton: Large Language Models in Medicine. They Understand and Have Empathy. 30 JAN.

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Artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio opens up about his hopes and concerns. 29 JAN.

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PREDICTION [opinion]. Within 10 years 70-80% of current G20 manual & knowledge worker jobs will be: (A) manually automated by physical robots, or (B) digitally automated by AGI

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FORBES. Zuckerberg on AI: Meta Building AGI For Everyone And Open Sourcing It. 18 JAN.

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WEF. DAVOS 2024. Chinese Premier Li Qiang called AI “a double-edged sword.” 17 JAN.

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CNBC. DAVOS 2024. UN chief calls for global risk management of AI, warns of ‘serious unintended consequences’

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CNBC. DAVOS 2024. We don’t want to see an AI ‘Hiroshima,’ Salesforce CEO warns.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-21T21:50:15+00:00January 17, 2024|

A very good read from a respected source! [...]

THE ECONOMIST. Sam Altman: there’s no “magic red button” to stop AI. 17 JAN

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Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance. NTI Bio.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-13T14:02:48+00:00January 13, 2024|

A very important report from a respected source! [...]

On Concentration of the Mind. Samuel Johnson (1777). We can safely Assume, any AGI MIND will too, be concentrated on survival.

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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.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-14T20:48:29+00:00January 11, 2024|

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]

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-14T20:36:21+00:00January 10, 2024|

Very important data and report from a respected source: [...]

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Opinion. AI Safety Research Only Enables the Dangers of Runaway Superintelligence. AI will become inscrutable and uncontrollable. We need to stop AI development until we have a necessary safety conversation. 09 JAN.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-10T10:32:26+00:00January 10, 2024|

A very good read from a respected source! (with [...]

REPORT. On the Controllability of Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Limitations. Roman V. Yampolskiy. 2022-05-25.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-10T10:22:06+00:00January 10, 2024|

A very important read from a very respected and [...]

FORBES. The Year Of Hallucinating Artificial Intelligence And Arrogant Human Ingenuity. 07 JAN.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-09T13:10:45+00:00January 7, 2024|

A very good read 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.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-09T13:01:28+00:00January 6, 2024|

A very IMPORTANT read from a VERY respected source! [...]

BBC NEWS. Urgent need for terrorism AI laws, warns think tank. 03 JAN.

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-03T15:16:44+00:00January 3, 2024|

The power of AI used by nefarious actors is [...]

OXFORD UNION. Debate Highlights | This House believes that Artificial Intelligence is an existential threat. 29 NOV.

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32 DAYS AGO at OXFORD UNION. Max Tegmark explains how quickly time is running out to manage the risks posed by AI. 29 NOV.

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32 DAYS AGO at OXFORD UNION. Jaan Tallinn argues that the extinction risk from AI is not just possible, but imminent. 29 NOV.

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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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9 MONTHS AGO. The A.I. Dilemma. March 9, 2023. Center for Humane Technology. Shocking Capabilities!

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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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CNN. “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the “Existential Threat” of AI | Amanpour and Company. 09 MAY.

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CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. AI Transformation of our Society.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-26T05:01:18+00:00December 25, 2023|

CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. [...]

WIRED. How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun. It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true. 22 DEC.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-26T04:43:28+00:00December 22, 2023|

A very good read from a respected source! [...]

OpenAI. Preparedness. The Preparedness team is dedicated to making frontier AI models safe. 18 DEC.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-26T05:11:50+00:00December 18, 2023|

An important development from a leading AI company! [...]

LESSWRONG. “Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity. 16th Dec 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-26T06:02:30+00:00December 16, 2023|

LESSWRONG. "Humanity vs. AGI" Will Never Look Like "Humanity vs. [...]

OpenAI. Weak-to-Strong Generalisation: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision. [probably won’t work]

Peter A. Jensen2024-01-01T23:09:15+00:00December 15, 2023|

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VATICAN NEWS. In World Peace Day message, Pope warns of risks of AI for peace. 14 DEC

Peter A. Jensen2024-02-25T17:08:39+00:00December 14, 2023|

Good to know that even The Pope believes that [...]

Meta. Trust and safety. Welcome to Purple Llama. Empowering developers, advancing safety, and building an open ecosystem.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-12T16:37:06+00:00December 12, 2023|

A very good start from a respected source! (but [...]

BUSINESS INSIDER. We now have more info on what Sam Altman did that was so bad he got fired from OpenAI. 10 DEC.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-12T06:34:35+00:00December 12, 2023|

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FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS. Bio X AI: Policy Recommendations For A New Frontier. 12 DEC.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-19T03:44:36+00:00December 12, 2023|

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AGI (and the ASI Intelligence Explosion) is Closer than you think… a lot Closer! It could be already happening.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-11T14:37:27+00:00December 10, 2023|

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News. European Parliament. Press Releases. Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI . 09 December 2023.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules. The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world’s first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence. 08 DEC.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-11T16:28:52+00:00December 9, 2023|

A very good read from very respected sources! [...]

The Transformative Potential of AGI — and When It Might Arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson | TED

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-08T15:32:31+00:00December 8, 2023|

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WHAT can go wrong with a powerful WISH? [AGI Goal] EXAMPLE: Disney’s Fantasia (1940). Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. (Goethe & Dukas)

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric. Where do you fall on the doom scale — is artificial intelligence a threat to humankind? And if so, how high is the risk?

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-08T20:59:33+00:00December 6, 2023|

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms. Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies. 06 DEC.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-09T13:55:02+00:00December 6, 2023|

A very good read from a respected source! [...]

BBC NEWS. Nvidia boss Jensen Huang confident about AI safety. 6 December 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2024-03-17T13:06:05+00:00December 6, 2023|

"I have every confidence that between all of our [...]

STEVE OMOHUNDRO. PROVABLY SAFE AGI – MIT MECHANISTIC INTERPRETABILITY CONFERENCE – MAY 7, 2023

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TOP-20 AGI Problems and TOP-20 Known AGI Mathematically Provable Containment and Control Solutions (alphabetical). Source. LESSWRONG

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AI ALIGNMENT FORUM. An Important RESOURCE aligned with LESSWRONG.

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DON’T LOOK UP | Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence | Official Trailer | Netflix. BONUS FIND: Don’t Look Up | The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat.

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LESSWRONG. Instrumental Convergence. Omohundro. Bostrom. References.

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Digital Engine. No, this angry AI isn’t fake (see comment), w Elon Musk. 09 OCT 2022

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CNN. ‘Godfather of AI’ warns that AI may figure out how to kill people. 03 MAY.

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UnHerd. Nick Bostrom: How AI will lead to tyranny. 10 NOV.

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Future of Life Institute. Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI.

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Geoffrey Hinton: “So presently ninety-nine percent (99%) of the money is going into developing [AI] and one percent (1%) is going into safety. People are saying all these things might be dangerous so it should be more like 50/50.”

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P(doom) Roundup. What probability do (super-smart) people put on AI killing everyone?

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INDEPENDENT. OpenAI may have made a ‘dangerous’ artificial intelligence discover that led to chaos, Elon Musk says. Musk, who co-founded company, said he would ‘guess’ that something scared its board. 30 NOV.

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MSNBC. THE BEAT WITH ARI. Yuval Noah Harari on danger of AI. 30 NOV.

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REPORT. Thinking Inside the Box: Controlling and Using an Oracle AI. Stuart Armstrong. Anders Sandberg. Nick Bostrom. (2012) Minds and Machines.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T13:31:52+00:00November 29, 2023|

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Guardrails? Unfortunately NO. Mathematically provable containment, forever? YES. (sole option)

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NATURE. Learning few-shot imitation as cultural transmission. Google Deepmind.

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P(doom). You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like… from a forecasting expert.

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-02T13:34:13+00:00November 27, 2023|

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How to Keep AI Under Control | Max Tegmark | TED

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Teach AI like we teach our children. (But, AI must be contained always and forever.) Sponsored by SafeAI Forever.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OPINION. DAVID BROOKS. The Fight for the Soul of A.I. Nov. 23, 2023.

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BUSINESS INSIDER. OpenAI’s chaos has both hastened the arms race to AI dominance and opened the door to competitors. 25 NOV.

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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.

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Chris Wallace with Kara Swisher. P(doom). Kara Swisher: “It could be a good thing. But it could also kill you.” 25 NOV.

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NATURE. NEWS EXPLAINER. What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety. A debacle at the company that built ChatGPT highlights concern that commercial forces are acting against the responsible development of artificial-intelligence systems. 23 November 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.

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FT. OPINION. OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’. Abandoning attempts to hold the company to account for the impact of its technology would be a tragic mistake. 23 NOV.

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THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI and X: Promises of populist technology, shaped by a single man. 23 NOV.

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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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THE GUARDIAN. The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race. Optimists and ‘doomers’ are fighting over the direction of AI research – and those who want speed may have won this round. 22 NOV.

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THE ECONOMIST. The fallout from the weirdness at OpenAI. Sam Altman is set to return, but the episode holds some disturbing lessons. 22 NOV.

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-26T17:15:43+00:00November 22, 2023|

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LLM Emergent Behavior: Learning Mathematics. A worrying development AND a promising power. (But FIRST DO NO HARM)

Peter A. Jensen2023-12-10T20:46:21+00:00November 22, 2023|

LLM Emergent Behavior: Q* at OpenAI is apparently Learning Mathematics. [...]

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.

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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.

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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.

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THE WASHINGTON POST. BUSINESS. The idea of OpenAI is dead. Now, Microsoft is in the driver’s seat. Sam Altman sold the world on the notion that a nonprofit could keep AI safe. That was before he was ousted. 20 NOV.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Staff Threatens Exodus, Jeopardizing Company’s Future. A board member who was part of Sam Altman’s ouster as chief executive joined a majority of the company’s staff in calling for the decision’s reversal. 20 NOV.

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

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POLITICO. Power grab by France, Germany and Italy threatens to kill EU’s AI bill. Landmark law hangs in the balance as big countries drag their feet on advanced AI rules. 20 NOV.

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THE GUARDIAN. Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tech company creates advanced new artificial intelligence team as Twitch’s Emmett Shear joins OpenAI. 20 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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Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion. Safety and commercialization were central to disagreements. Microsoft CEO was ‘blindsided,’ furious at Altman’s firing

Peter A. Jensen2023-11-22T03:35:06+00:00November 18, 2023|

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OpenAI Disruption over AI Safety. (OpenAI announces leadership transition) 17 NOV.

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