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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Mathematically provable Safe AI is a requirement.
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“Emergent Ability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)” defined…
by BiocommAI EXAMPLES: Sam Altman: “I guess the thing that I lose the most sleep over is that we already have done something really bad. I don’t think we have. But the hypothetical that we, by launching ChatGPT into the world, shot the industry out of a railgun, and [...]
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 [...]
Fareed Zakaria & Geoffrey Hinton. AND Andrew Ng & Geoffrey Hinton. Does AI already threaten humanity? 11 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. "We don't know any examples of more intelligent things being controlled by less intelligent things... These things will get much more intelligent than us. And the worry is, can we keep them working for us [...]
Piers Morgan Uncensored. Mo Gawdat Warns The Dangers of AI Are “Happening As We Speak”. 11 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Piers Morgan Uncensored. Mo Gawdat Warns The Dangers of AI Are "Happening As We Speak". 11 JUNE 2023. We always had three boundaries if you want AI [safety] we said don’t [...]
THE INDEPENDENT. US looking to UK to lead the effort on AI regulation talks, Biden says. The US president said there was no-one ‘we have greater faith in being able to negotiate this’ than Rishi Sunak. 08 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE INDEPENDENT. US looking to UK to lead the effort on AI regulation talks, Biden says. The US president said there was no-one ‘we have greater faith in being able to negotiate [...]
GOV UK. Press release. UK to host first global summit on Artificial Intelligence. 07 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI could transform our lives for the better if used safely and securely. No one country can do this alone - it'll take a global effort. But with our expertise and commitment [...]
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 [...]
GOOGLE. SAFETY & SECURITY. Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework. Jun 08, 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOOGLE. SAFETY & SECURITY. Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework. Jun 08, 2023. Today we're releasing a conceptual framework to help collaboratively secure AI technology. The potential of AI, especially generative AI, is [...]
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 [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Interview ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it. 07 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Interview ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it. 07 JUNE 2023 Sam Altman is among the most vocal [...]
MARC ANDREESSEN. [Inventor of the first web browser and leading tech investor]. Why AI Will [Hopefully] Save The World. 06 JUN 2023. with Editorial Comment.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Editor comment: If the Construction Engineers were to say to you... "We built this airplane but there is a 10% probability it will certainly crash." Do you fly? "We are building a [...]
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Department of Computer Science and Technology. Security Group. Will GPT models choke on their own exhaust? 2023-06-06.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Will GPT models choke on their own exhaust? 2023-06-06. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Department of Computer Science and Technology. Security Group. Until about now, most of the text online was written by humans. [...]
REPORT. Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology? 06 Jun 2023. INSIDER. AI chatbots helped college students come up with new pandemic pathogens they could spread.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology? 06 Jun 2023. Download PDF "These results strongly suggest that the existing evaluation and training process for LLMs, which relies heavily on reinforcement [...]
Yuval Noah Harari & Pedro Pinto. Humanity is not that simple. 06 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "If we don't regulate it there will be an arms race for intimacy. Different AIs competing to create intimacy with us. Because the easiest way to persuade you to change your political [...]
CSER Cambridge. Geoffrey Hinton. Two Paths to Intelligence. 06 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 8,167 views 5 Jun 2023 Geoffrey Hinton - Two Paths to Intelligence (25 May 2023, Public Lecture, University of Cambridge) Digital computers were designed to allow a person [...]
MIRI. Intelligence Explosion FAQ.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. MIRI. Intelligence Explosion FAQ. (PDF Version Available) Basics 1.1. What is the intelligence explosion? How Likely is an Intelligence Explosion? 2.1. How is ‘intelligence’ defined? 2.2. What is greater-than-human intelligence? 2.3. What [...]
Mila. Inspiring the development of AI for the benefit of all. Located in the heart of Quebec’s AI ecosystem, Mila is a community of more than 1,000 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation.
Mila. Inspiring the development of AI for the benefit of all. Located in the heart of Quebec’s AI ecosystem, Mila is a community of more than 1,000 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation. AI for humanity Socially responsible and beneficial development of artificial intelligence [...]
MICROSOFT RESEARCH. Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4. 05 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. MICROSOFT RESEARCH. Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4. 05 JUNE 2023 Subhabrata Mukherjee∗†, Arindam Mitra∗ Ganesh Jawahar, Sahaj Agarwal, Hamid Palangi, Ahmed Awadallah Microsoft Research Abstract Recent research has [...]
Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans. Dan Hendrycks. Center for AI Safety. 06 MAY 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans. Dan Hendrycks. Center for AI Safety. 06 MAY 2023 Abstract For billions of years, evolution has been the driving force behind the development of life, including [...]
THE GUARDIAN. AI-controlled US military drone ‘kills’ its operator in simulated test. No real person was harmed, but artificial intelligence used ‘highly unexpected strategies’ in test to achieve its mission and attacked anyone who interfered. 02 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. AI-controlled US military drone ‘kills’ its operator in simulated test. 02 JUNE 2023. No real person was harmed, but artificial intelligence used ‘highly unexpected strategies’ in test to achieve its [...]
INNOVATIONS ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. June 2, 2023
THE WASHINGTON POST. INNOVATIONS. ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. June 2, 2023 By Pranshu Verma and Gerrit De Vynck When ChatGPT came out last November, Olivia [...]