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

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks Published 24 June 2023 by yoshuabengio I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for [...]

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

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AGI is generally accepted by scientists as an existential threat to humanity. Do we see solutions here for human alignment and control of AGI forever? You decide... Microsoft, Google, OpenAI Respond to [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES. TECH POLICY. Schumer launches ‘all hands on deck’ push to regulate AI. The Senate leader urged lawmakers to advance ‘comprehensive’ legislation in coming months, amid pressure from critics for Congress to act. 21 JUNE 2023

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE NEW YORK TIMES. TECH POLICY. Schumer launches ‘all hands on deck’ push to regulate AI. The Senate leader urged lawmakers to advance ‘comprehensive’ legislation in coming months, amid pressure from critics [...]

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 Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn’t compete and would be superseded.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

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