AI Existential Risk

UC BERKELEY. Stuart Russell testifies on AI regulation at U.S. Senate hearing. August 2, 2023.

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LLM Attacks. Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models. JULY 2023.

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OpenAI. Frontier Model Forum. 26 JULY 2023.

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THE WASHINGTON POST. AI leaders warn Congress that AI could be used to create bioweapons. Two AI researchers and the CEO of AI startup Anthropic testified about the long-term risks of AI and said Congress needs to institute rules to control it. 25 JULY 2023.

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THE WHITE HOUSE. FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI. 21 JULY 2023

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. The White House Pushes Tech Leaders To Get Tough on A.I. Safety. 21 JULY 2023.

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

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Bloomberg’s Nate Lanxon and Jackie Davalos are joined by controversial AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowksy to discuss the danger posed by misaligned AI. | Who Would Win the AI Arms Race?

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Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

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THE GUARDIAN. AI firms should face prison over creation of fake humans, says Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens author tells Geneva summit proliferation of fake people on social media could lead to collapse in democracy. 06 JULY 2023.

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BOSTON GLOBE. Dan Hendrycks wants to save us from an AI catastrophe. He’s not sure he’ll succeed. 06 JULY 2023.

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OpenAI. Introducing Superalignment. 05 JULY 2023.

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UNKNOWN: Killer Robots | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Our Most Realistic Nuclear War Simulation Yet. 01 July 2023.

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INSIDER. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the threat of artificial intelligence in ‘Terminator 2’ ‘has become a reality’: ‘Today, everyone is frightened of it’. 30 JUNE 2023.

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FLI. How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally? (certain death by impact or starvation)

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The future of AI? The era of AI could benefit humans and humanity beyond our wildest dreams. Or not.

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

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Microsoft, Google, OpenAI Respond to Biden’s Call for AI Accountability. Dive into the insights from major tech players as they weigh in on the future of AI accountability and regulation in response to NTIA’s nationwide call. 23 JUNE 2023

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

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THE WHITE HOUSE. Remarks by President Biden on Seizing the Opportunities and Managing the Risks of Artificial Intelligence. JUNE 20, 2023

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MEGATHREAT. Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat | 20 JUNE 2023.

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

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THE REGISTER. Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you’re smart enough for the real world. The combination of LLMs and autonomous agents will pour fuel on AI anxiety. 15 JUNE 2023 [Q: Do GOVs regulate nuclear materials?]

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T10:11:18+00:00June 15, 2023|

For those who understand the danger of autonomous AI [...]

CNN. 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years. 14 JUNE 2023

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STEPHEN HAWKING. I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence that will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn’t compete and would be superseded.

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BBC NEWS. Technology. Five key challenges to make AI safe. 13 JUNE 2023.

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“Emergent Ability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)” defined…

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T10:15:35+00:00June 12, 2023|

by BiocommAI EXAMPLES: Sam Altman: “I guess the thing [...]

Fareed Zakaria & Geoffrey Hinton. AND Andrew Ng & Geoffrey Hinton. Does AI already threaten humanity? 11 JUNE 2023.

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Piers Morgan Uncensored. Mo Gawdat Warns The Dangers of AI Are “Happening As We Speak”. 11 JUNE 2023.

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WARNING SIGN. “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” – Microsoft

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-05T10:20:58+00:00June 8, 2023|

"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence" - Microsoft "We contend [...]

“PROBABLY NOT”? GPT-4 System Card: “Finally, we facilitated a preliminary model evaluation by the Alignment Research Center (ARC) of GPT-4’s ability to carry out actions to autonomously replicate (5) and gather resources—a risk that, while speculative, may become possible with sufficiently advanced AI systems—with the conclusion that the current model is probably not yet capable of autonomously doing so.”

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THE WASHINGTON POST. Opinion. AI is at a dangerous juncture. June 7, 2023

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THE GUARDIAN. Interview ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it. 07 JUNE 2023

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REPORT. Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology? 06 Jun 2023. INSIDER. AI chatbots helped college students come up with new pandemic pathogens they could spread.

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Yuval Noah Harari & Pedro Pinto. Humanity is not that simple. 06 JUNE 2023.

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CSER Cambridge. Geoffrey Hinton. Two Paths to Intelligence. 06 JUNE 2023

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MIRI. Intelligence Explosion FAQ.

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Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans. Dan Hendrycks. Center for AI Safety. 06 MAY 2023

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THE GUARDIAN. AI-controlled US military drone ‘kills’ its operator in simulated test. No real person was harmed, but artificial intelligence used ‘highly unexpected strategies’ in test to achieve its mission and attacked anyone who interfered. 02 JUNE 2023

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CNN. Opinion: We’ve reached a turning point with AI, expert [Stuart Russell] says. Wed May 31, 2023

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THE NEW YORK TIMES. A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn. Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons. 30 MAY 2023

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SLATE. Big Tech Isn’t Prepared for A.I.’s Next Chapter. Open source is changing everything. MAY 30, 2023.

Peter A. Jensen2023-10-09T06:57:37+00:00May 30, 2023|

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES. Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. Kevin Roose. 30 MAY 2023.

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

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THE GUARDIAN. No 10 acknowledges ‘existential’ risk of AI for first time. 25 MAY 2023

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Yoshua Bengio & Yuval Noah Harari. Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, & the Future of Civilization. 24 MAY 2023.

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DEEPMIND. BLOG. An early warning system for novel AI risks. May 25, 2023. Model evaluation for extreme risks. 24 MAY 2023.

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Former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, told the WSJ gathering of CEOs in London on 23 May that the existential risk of AI “is defined as many, many, many, many people harmed or killed,” but he did not have any clear ideas himself on how AI should, or could, be regulated. Schmidt’s opinion was that AI safety should be a ‘broader question for society.’ 24 MAY 2023

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Former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, told the WSJ [...]

MIT Sloan School of Management. Why neural net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm on AI. 23 MAY 2023.

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“If we allow it to take over, it will [...]

YOSHUA BENGIO. How Rogue AIs may Arise. 22 MAY 2023. AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI? 07 MAY 2023. Slowing down development of AI systems passing the Turing test. 05 APRIL 2023.

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

DAILY MAIL. How AI will change the world by 2030, according to eight experts: Tech could solve the energy crisis, add trillions to the global economy… or wipe out the human race. 20 MAY 2023

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NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing. 16 MAY 2023

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WASHINGTON POST. CEO behind ChatGPT warns Congress AI could cause ‘harm to the world’ 16 MAY 2023

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BBC NEWS. Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence. 16 MAY 2023

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THE NEW YORKER. Annals of Artificial Intelligence. Can We Stop Runaway A.I.? May 16, 2023

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LESSWRONG. Summary of ‘AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities’

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Summary of "AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities" by [...]

John Henry Clippinger. What is Intelligence ? Machine – Natural – Human – Ethical. March 1, 2023. Linkedin.

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ANTHROPIC. Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback. Dec 15, 2022

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

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Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development (2107). Nick Bostrom. Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.

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

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