First do no harm.
“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
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
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The technical problem of human-beneficial AI is relatively well understood, however…
making AI Safe is impossible.
The technical solutions are currently unknown to making Safe AI.
Containment and control of AI is the requirement, forever.
Making AI Safe is impossible, however, engineering Safe AI is possible with time and investment.
We need mathematically provable guarantees of Safe AI.
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About X-risk: The Elders
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Mathematically provable Safe AI is a requirement.
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OPEN LETTER. MIT. A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation. 5 March.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Open Letter. MIT. A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation We propose that AI companies make simple policy changes to protect good faith research on their models, and promote safety, security, and [...]
HackerNoon. Is AGI Getting Closer? Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus Model Shows Glimmers of Metacognitive Reasoning. 5 March.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. HACKERNOON. Is AGI Getting Closer? Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus Model Shows Glimmers of Metacognitive Reasoning. By Mike Young 5 March. Can an AI language model become self-aware enough to realize when it’s [...]
Mutualistic Symbiosis is an extremely successful strategy in our Natural World.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Mirriam-Webster symbiosis the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) especially MUTUALISM a cooperative relationship (as between two persons [...]
BBC NEWS. Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BBC NEWS. Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images. Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican. [...]
p(doom) of 20%! Yoshua Bengio a ‘godfather of AI’ puts his p(doom) at 20%!
A 20% chance we bring about the extinction of humanity is a horrific risk! 8 billion people did not give their consent! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. p(doom). AI’s dark in-joke. A ‘godfather [...]
Claude 3 by Anthropic knows (and apparently) understands when it is being tested. 5 March.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Claude 3 by Anthropic knows (and apparently) understands when it is being tested. 5 March. "The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International [...]
Marketing AI Institute. Sam Altman says that AI will do “95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today.”
405,911 marketing specialists currently employed in the U.S. with average age is 36 and 64.5% women, 35.5% men. source FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Marketing AI Institute. Sam Altman says that AI will do [...]
NEW YORK POST. Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’. June 5, 2023.
“I try not to think about it too much, but I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING [...]
REUTERS. Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years. “Improving computing by a million times over 10 years”. Reported by Yahoo-Finance. 2 MAR.
Nvidia GPU chip designs are aided by AI systems. Source: ChipNeMo by Nvidia [ergo. AI developing AI] Learn more: ChipNeMo. Domain-Adapted LLMs for Chip Design FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. REUTERS. Nvidia CEO says [...]
FILED 02/29/2024. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. ELON MUSK, an individual, vs. SAMUEL ALTMAN, an individual…
"18. Mr. Musk has long recognized that AGI poses a grave threat to humanity—perhaps the greatest existential threat we face today." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR [...]
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter. 11,251 Signatures. Published October 28, 2015.
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter (2015) There is now a broad consensus that AI research is progressing steadily, and that its impact on society is likely to increase. The potential benefits are huge, since everything that civilization has to offer is a product [...]
The Wrap. Inside the Crisis at Google. March 1, 2024.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Wrap. Inside the Crisis at Google. Alex Kantrowitz Fri, March 1, 2024. It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar Pichai off guard. I remember sitting in the audience in January 2018 [...]
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00)
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ELON MUSK: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ THE WASHINGTON POST. 24 October 2014.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Innovations - The Washington Post Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ By Matt McFarland, October 24, 2014 at 2:37 p.m. EDT Tesla chief executive Elon Musk [...]
LESSWRONG. What does it take to defend the world against out-of-control AGIs? 25th Oct 2022.
Apparently attempting to use a "good" AGI to defend against a "bad" AGI has a very low theoretical probability of mitigating catastrophe. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. LESSWRONG. What does it take to [...]
Matt Wolfe. AI News: Brace Yourself for the Coming AI Storm!
AI News: Brace Yourself for the Coming AI Storm! Matt Wolfe AI News: Brace Yourself for the Coming AI Storm! Matt Wolfe Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:04 More Sora Examples 1:28 Pika Lip Sync 1:48 Runway Updates 2:25 EMO - Expressive Portraits 3:54 LTX Studio 5:50 Tyler [...]
Nvidia. What Is Trustworthy AI? 01 March.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. What Is Trustworthy AI? Trustworthy AI is an approach to AI development that prioritizes safety and transparency for the people who interact with it. Artificial intelligence, like any transformative technology, is a [...]
TOM’S GUIDE. Move over Gemini and ChatGPT — Meta is releasing ‘more responsive’ Llama 3 AI model in July. Llama 3 will be open source.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. TOM'S Move over Gemini and ChatGPT — Meta is releasing 'more responsive' Llama 3 AI model in July according to the report senior leadership feel that the guardrails imposed on the earlier [...]
BEUC. How Meta is breaching [EU] consumers’ fundamental rights. 29 FEB
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How Meta is breaching consumers' fundamental rights Published on 29.02.2024 About this publication After analysing Meta’s practices, BEUC and its members have found that Meta processes personal data in a way that [...]
IBM. How Meta’s Llama 3 will impact the future of AI. 26 FEB.
A clear analysis from a highly respected source. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. IBM. How Meta’s Llama 3 will impact the future of AI. Zuckerberg also announced substantial investments in training infrastructure. By [...]
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton – “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” Romanes Lecture. 29 FEB.
"I'm making the very strong claim these things really do understand." - Prof. Geoffrey Hinton FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Prof. Geoffrey Hinton - "Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?" Romanes Lecture. [...]
Trust Nothing – Introducing EMO: AI Making Anyone Say Anything. Matthew Berman. 29 FEB.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Trust Nothing - Introducing EMO: AI Making Anyone Say Anything. Matthew Berman. 29 FEB. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
MATT WOLFE. I Was Wrong About AI Video… 29 FEB
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