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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 Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn’t compete and would be superseded.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 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 [...]

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

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BBC NEWS. Technology. Five key challenges to make AI safe. 13 JUNE 2023. By Zoe Kleinman and Philippa Wain Technology editor Artificial-intelligence experts generally follow one of two schools of thought - [...]

GOV.UK. Press release. Dowden: world-class crisis capabilities deployed to defeat biological threats of tomorrow. Biological Security Strategy will defend the UK from infectious disease outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, and biological incidents and attacks. 12 June 2023.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOV.UK. Press release. Dowden: world-class crisis capabilities deployed to defeat biological threats of tomorrow Biological Security Strategy will defend the UK from infectious disease outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, and biological incidents and attacks. [...]

GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Policy paper. UK Biological Security Strategy (HTML). 12 June 2023. [and… FT. Opinion . Biotech. Governments are waking up to biosecurity risks — but we must act fast. We have a narrow window during which to harness AI for good, rather than ill.]

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Policy paper. UK Biological Security Strategy (HTML). Published 12 June 2023 Foreword Deputy Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster In the dark [...]

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

"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence" - Microsoft "We contend that (this early version of) GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of LLMs (along with ChatGPT and Google's PaLM for example) that exhibit more general intelligence than previous AI models. We discuss the rising capabilities and implications of these [...]

“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.”

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Our Opinion: Unfortunately, "probably not" AND "maybe" AND " do our best" AND "I don't think" AND "I think" AND "could reasonably be" are not definitive enough for global public safety and [...]

JAMA NETWORK. Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Responses to Public Health Questions. Ayers, Zhu, Poliak. June 7, 2023

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. JAMA NETWORK. Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Responses to Public Health Questions. Ayers, Zhu, Poliak. June 7, 2023 John W. Ayers, PhD, MA1,2; Zechariah Zhu, BS1; Adam Poliak, PhD3; et alEric C. Leas, PhD, MPH1,4; Mark Dredze, PhD5; Michael Hogarth, MD6,7; Davey M. Smith, MD, MAS2,7 Author Affiliations [...]

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

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WASHINGTON POST. Opinion. AI is at a dangerous juncture. June 7, 2023 By Robert Wright. Robert Wright, whose books include “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life” and “Nonzero: The [...]

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