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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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Experts on X-risk: The AI Safety Risk

GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies Top frontier AI firms have outlined their safety policies to boost transparency and encourage the sharing of best practice within the AI community. 27 OCT 2023.

GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies Top frontier AI firms have outlined their safety policies to boost transparency and encourage the sharing of best practice within the AI community. From:Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP 27 OCT 2023. [...]

UN. Press Release. UN Secretary-General launches AI Advisory Body on risks, opportunities, and international governance of artificial intelligence. 27 OCT 2023.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Press Release. UN Secretary-General launches AI Advisory Body on risks, opportunities, and international governance of artificial intelligence. 27 OCT 2023 The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the creation of a [...]

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW. Rogue superintelligence and merging with machines: Inside the mind of OpenAI’s chief scientist. An exclusive conversation with Ilya Sutskever on his fears for the future of AI and why they’ve made him change the focus of his life’s work. 26 OCT.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. “It’s important to talk about where it’s all headed. At some point we really will have AGI. Maybe OpenAI will build it. Maybe some other company will build it... It’s going to [...]

MIT Technology Review. Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI “It’s going to be monumental, earth-shattering. There will be a before and an after.” October 26, 2023.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI “It’s going to be monumental, earth-shattering. There will be a before and an after.” By Will [...]

THE GUARDIAN. Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert. MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says Max Tegmark. MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future. [...]

Frontier Model Forum

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Frontier Model Forum What the Frontier Model Forum will do Governments and industry agree that, while advanced AI offers tremendous promise to benefit the world, appropriate guardrails are required to mitigate risks. [...]

REPORT. DecodingTrust. Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. DecodingTrust. Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models. What is DecodingTrust? DecodingTrust aims at providing a thorough assessment of trustworthiness in GPT models. This research endeavor is designed to help researchers and [...]

OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access. Those paying for OpenAI’s chatbot are now able to use Bing to give ChatGPT the latest information. Plus, DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out in beta. October 18, 2023.

GIZMODO. OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access. (OOPS?) Those paying for OpenAI’s chatbot are now able to use Bing to give ChatGPT the latest information. Plus, DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out in beta. By Kyle Barr Published October 18, 2023 OpenAI’s world-famous chatbot is free to rummage through [...]

OpenAI Alignment Team Lead: Jan Leike ‘s P(doom) is, like, 10-90%.

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. OpenAI Alignment Team Lead: Jan Leike 's P(doom) is, like, 10-90%. OpenAI Alignment Team Lead @JanLeike's P(doom) is 10-90%. pic.twitter.com/CFuyQxQ0hf — Liron Shapira (@liron) August [...]

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