First do no harm.
Editors’ humble opinion based on AI technology thought leaders over the past 80 years… we are all now in extremely deep trouble. ANALYZE THE DATA.
We believe Von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Good, Clarke, Hawking, Musk, Bostrom, Tegmark, Russell, Bengio, Hinton, and thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Learn more: The Containment Problem and The AI Safety Problem
“It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.” — Stuart Russell
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” — Actual AI output. Published 13 November 2024 at 03:32
“These things really do understand.” — Nobel laureate, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” at University of Oxford, Romanes Lecture
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The technical problem of AI safety is relatively well understood- Making AI Safe is impossible.
The technical solutions are currently unknown to making Safe AI.
Making AI Safe is impossible. Making Safe AI is doable with time and investment.
We need mathematically provable guarantees of Safe AI.
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About X-risk: Future of Life Institute
Stuart Russell | Provably Beneficial AI
About X-risk: The Elders
It’s time for bold new thinking.
Good Summary of X-risk by PauseAGI
About X-risk: The Containment Problem
Experts on X-risk: The AI Safety Risk
CNBC. DAVOS 2024. UN chief calls for global risk management of AI, warns of ‘serious unintended consequences’
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. CNBC. DAVOS 2024. UN chief calls for global risk management of AI, warns of ‘serious unintended consequences’ PUBLISHED WED, JAN 17 20246:14 AM EST By Sam Meredith UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses [...]
CNBC. DAVOS 2024. We don’t want to see an AI ‘Hiroshima,’ Salesforce CEO warns.
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. CNBC. DAVOS WEF. We don’t want to see an AI ‘Hiroshima,’ Salesforce CEO warns “We don’t want to have a [...]
THE ECONOMIST. Sam Altman: there’s no “magic red button” to stop AI. 17 JAN
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE ECONOMIST. Sam Altman: there’s no “magic red button” to stop AI. ZANNY MINTON BEDDOES. If you were ever in that room and you thought to yourself, this [...]
THE INTERCEPT. OPENAI QUIETLY DELETES BAN ON USING CHATGPT FOR “MILITARY AND WARFARE” The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use. 12 JAN.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE INTERCEPT. OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use. [...]
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. A Conversation with Satya Nadella and Klaus Schwab. “What would the world look like if we are able to solve global problems as one community?” 16 JAN.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. We’ve never had a broad general purpose technology that diffused to all corners of the globe and created abundance equally. That’s the dream. What would the world look like if we are [...]
FOX. Jamie Dimon. On AI in Healthcare. from J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FOX. Jamie Dimon. On AI in Healthcare. from J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. MARIA: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ON A PRACTICAL MATTER HOW IT'S GOING TO [...]
IMF Blog. AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let’s Make Sure It Benefits Humanity. AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others. We need a careful balance of policies to tap its potential. 14 JAN.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. IMF Blog. AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let’s Make Sure It Benefits Humanity. AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others. We need [...]
Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance. NTI Bio.
A very important report from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance. NTI Bio. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE [...]
On Concentration of the Mind. Samuel Johnson (1777). We can safely Assume, any AGI MIND will too, be concentrated on survival.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. On Concentration of the Mind. Samuel Johnson (1777). "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." ASSUME: Any AGI [...]
WEF. Patient-First Health with Generative AI: Reshaping the Care Experience. 12 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. WEF. Patient-First Health with Generative AI: Reshaping the Care Experience. Published: 12 January 2024 This white paper by the World [...]
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.
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FT. US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety. OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere held back-channel talks [...]
ANTHROPIC. Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training. 13 JAN 2024. [Emergent Deceptive Behavior]
Very important data and report from a respected source: (1) The larger the LLM, the better the deception. (2) Current safety alignment technologies fail to prevent emergent deceptive behavior, with inverse (negative) training result. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT [...]
OECD AI Principles overview. The OECD AI Principles promote use of AI that is innovative and trustworthy and that respects human rights and democratic values. Adopted in May 2019, they set standards for AI that are practical and flexible enough to stand the test of time.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. OECD AI Principles overview The OECD AI Principles promote use of AI that is innovative and trustworthy and that respects human rights and democratic values. Adopted in May 2019, they set standards [...]
AGI COMPLACENT? BEWARE! “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton (1887)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" (1887) John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902) Lord Acton, the historian and moralist, expressed this opinion in a letter (1887) to Bishop Mandell Creighton: "Power [...]
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.
A very good read from a respected source! (with excellent reference links) FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Opinion. AI Safety Research Only Enables the Dangers of Runaway Superintelligence. AI will become [...]
REPORT. On the Controllability of Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Limitations. Roman V. Yampolskiy. 2022-05-25.
A very important read from a very respected and credible source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. On the Controllability of Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Limitations Author: Roman V. Yampolskiy, University of Louisville, [...]
THE LANCET. Crossing the frontier: the first global AI safety summit. 04 JAN.
A very good read from a highly respected source! Bengio cautioned that the kind of advances in AI that still sound like science fiction could become a reality far sooner than we expect. “We need to be prepared, otherwise we could find that the pace of change is too [...]
NVIDIA Special Address at CES 2024
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A very informative keynote with important developments. (see 21.30 for Robotics [...]
FT. Opinion. Artificial intelligence. It’s already time to think about an AI tax. Jobs will be displaced or erased by the next chapter of the tech revolution, and companies must share the social costs.
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FT. Opinion. Artificial intelligence. It’s already time to think about an AI tax. Jobs will be displaced or erased by [...]
FORBES. The Year Of Hallucinating Artificial Intelligence And Arrogant Human Ingenuity. 07 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FORBES. The Year Of Hallucinating Artificial Intelligence And Arrogant Human Ingenuity Gil Press Senior Contributor I write about technology, entrepreneurs [...]
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.
A very IMPORTANT read from a VERY respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE CHOSUN DAILY. ‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio forecasts arrival of self-doubting AI in 2024. In 2024, larger and more [...]
AI Market Statistics (Jan 2024)
Very good data from respected sources! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI investment forecast to approach $200 billion globally by 2025 - Goldman Sachs Published 01 AUG 2023 Generative AI has enormous economic [...]
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Democracy. How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks. 03 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Democracy How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks By Jen Easterly, [...]