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.“ — Prof. 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
“I’m on Team Human. AI for humans, not AGI. Let’s build AI systems with goals we can confidently control.” — Prof. Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute
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.
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THE VERGE. AI startup Anthropic wants to write a new constitution for safe AI. MAY 09, 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE VERGE. AI startup Anthropic wants to write a new constitution for safe AI. MAY 09, 2023 The company, founded by former OpenAI employees, has revealed new details of the written principles [...]
NSF announces $140 million budget for 7 new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. 07 MAY 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NSF announces 7 new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with other federal agencies and higher education institutions and other stakeholders, today announced a $140 million [...]
CrowdSmart brings people and AI together to co-create solutions to any challenge. Tom Kehler.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. CrowdSmart brings people and AI together to co-create solutions to any challenge. What is co-creation with CrowdSmart? CrowdSmart co-creation is a new type of AI that guides groups of [...]
Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
I feel that AI should be built by humanity for humanity, and let's not forget that. --- Max Tegmark "The basic problem is you just don't want to give, you don't wanna cede control over your planet to some other more intelligent entity that doesn't share your goals. It's that [...]
SPEAKER: Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley. “HOW NOT TO DESTROY THE WORLD WITH AI”. 05 April 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES "We don' t know where the large language models are between a piece of paper and AGI. They are somewhere along there. We just [...]
PBS NEWS HOUR. ‘Godfather of AI’ discusses dangers the developing technologies pose to society. 05 MAY 2023
We’re entering a time of great uncertainty, where we’re dealing with kinds of things we have never dealt with before. It’s as if aliens have landed, but we didn’t really take it in because they speak good English. We should realize that we're probably going [...]
LESSWRONG. LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making.
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. – Piet Hein LESSWRONG LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making. We [...]
THE SPECTATOR. The godfather of AI: why I left Google. 06 May 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. ‘I’d always kind of ignored the existential threat before about it wiping out humanity. Now I think there’s a significant chance of that. Google had a big language model called Palm which [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Geoff Hinton. ‘We’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it’s not for us’: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity. He now thinks the crunch time will come in the next five to 20 years, he says. “But I wouldn’t rule out a year or two.” 05 MAY 2023.
THE GUARDIAN. Geoff Hinton. ‘We’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it’s not for us’: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity. 05 MAY 2023. “You need to imagine something more intelligent than us by the same difference that we’re more intelligent than a frog. And [...]
TED. Sal Kahn. How AI could save (not destroy) education. Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How AI could save (not destroy) education Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest [...]
The Hidden Source of AI’s Emerging Power. Geoffrey Hinton is more worried than most about what the new AI models could lead to. Maybe that’s because he understands them more deeply than most. ROBERT WRIGHT 4 MAY 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Hidden Source of AI’s Emerging Power Geoffrey Hinton is more worried than most about what the new AI models could lead to. 04 MAY 2023. Maybe that’s because he understands them [...]
GOOGLE. “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI. 04 MAY 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOOGLE. "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI". Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI. 04 MAY 2023. We Have No Moat And neither does [...]
REUTERS. VP Harris tells Microsoft, Google they have legal responsibility to ensure safety of AI products. 04 MAY 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. REUTERS. VP Harris tells Microsoft, Google they have legal responsibility to ensure safety of AI products. 04 MAY 2023 "As I shared today with CEOs of companies at the forefront of American [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE. FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Promote Responsible AI Innovation that Protects Americans’ Rights and Safety. May 04, 2023
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Promote Responsible AI Innovation that Protects Americans’ Rights and Safety MAY 04, 2023 Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new actions that will further promote responsible American innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and protect people’s rights and [...]
FORBES. EDITORS’ PICK. Geoff Hinton, AI’s Most Famous Researcher, Warns Of ‘Existential Threat’ From AI. 04 MAY 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BiocommAI Comment: AI must be controlled by humanity, for humanity, forever. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
SENATE DEMOCRATS. Schumer Launches Major Effort To Get Ahead Of Artificial Intelligence. 13 APRIL.2023.
04.13.2023. SENATE DEMOCRATS. Schumer Launches Major Effort To Get Ahead Of Artificial Intelligence FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES New York, N.Y. – Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) launched a first-of-its-kind effort to advance and manage one of the fastest moving, and most consequential industries across the globe: artificial intelligence (AI). Time is [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. IBM could replace 7,800 jobs with artificial intelligence, CEO says. 02 MAY 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WASHINGTON POST. IBM could replace 7,800 jobs with artificial intelligence, CEO says. 02 MAY 2023 The technology is beginning to disrupt how humans work By Pranshu Verma Updated May 2, 2023 [...]
The intelligence explosion: Nick Bostrom on the future of AI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The intelligence explosion: Nick Bostrom on the future of AI The birth of superintelligence I think we have this notion of what's smart and what's dumb. Whereas I think there [...]
BBC NEWS. AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google. 02 MAY
BBC NEWS. AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google. 02 MAY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES "And given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast. So we need to worry about that. Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as [...]
World Economic Forum. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 – 30 April
World Economic Forum. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 - 30 April Fastest growing job postings on LinkedIn 2018-2022 Talent Acquisition Associate Sustainability Analyst Sales Development Representative Customer Success Analyst Sustainability Specialist Customer Success Associate Growth Marketing Manager Talent Acquisition Partner Sustainability Manager Workplace Coordinator Jobs that businesses expect to [...]
TED. Greg Brockman. The inside story of ChatGPT’s astonishing potential. APRIL 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The inside story of ChatGPT's astonishing potential2,308,216 views | Greg Brockman • TED2023 FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
THE ECONOMIST. Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation. “Storytelling computers will change the course of human history” 28 APRIL 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. By Invitation | Artificial intelligence Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation - The Economist Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says [...]
REPORT. Answering Questions by Meta-Reasoning over Multiple Chains of Thought
[Submitted on 25 Apr 2023] Answering Questions by Meta-Reasoning over Multiple Chains of Thought Ori Yoran, Tomer Wolfson, Ben Bogin, Uri Katz, Daniel Deutch, Jonathan Berant Modern systems for multi-hop question answering (QA) typically break questions into a sequence of reasoning steps, termed chain-of-thought (CoT), before arriving at a final [...]