Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction
Thousands of researchers were asked to give predictions about AI, and many had concerns about human extinction.
This is just based on a survey of researchers (not even AI researchers specifically) where they were asked if they think it'll happen or not and they gave anything from vague predictions to complete gut-feeling guesses back.
It's a worthless article. Not that I even needed to click to find that out.
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"AI experts’ predictions should not be seen as a reliable guide to objective truth"
"Researchers say"
Researchers also say things they pulled out of their ass 90% of the time.
Source: I researched it
“Researchers say” isn't something researchers say though but journalists or "journalists" (bloggers etc).
Guys who's job depends on hype around their field continue to hype their field. News at 11.
All that ad space just to leave out the whys.
What are the chances that it won’t cause extinction, but will just make things a bit (or maybe a lot) worse for a lot of people?
I don’t think any reasonable people are all that concerned with doomsday scenario as much as with the slow march towards a bullshit future.
We’re good so long as nobody rolls a nat 1
this is just a subset of the 100% chance humans will cause human extinction.
'by ai' is just one of very many options were looking into..
I like them odds
So, 95% chance that humans will cause human extinction.
And humans created AI, so even if AI does in the human race, it will still have been humans.
I guess if humans go extinct, it's close to 100% due to humans.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the short term, researchers estimate AI will become significantly more advanced, able to create a Top 40 pop song and write an NYT bestseller before 2030.
“While AI experts’ predictions should not be seen as a reliable guide to objective truth, they can provide one important piece of the puzzle,” said researchers from Berkeley and the University of Oxford who conducted the study in December.
“Their familiarity with the technology and the dynamics of its past progress puts them in a good position to make educated guesses about the future of AI.”
The study highlights the perceived danger around creating a powerful artificial intelligence from the world’s leading researchers.
Anthropic has a constitution laid over its AI systems to ensure they act in alignment with our society’s rules.
Experts anticipate that AI will be able to assemble LEGOs, translate newfound languages, and build video games before 2033.
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You have nothing to be afraid of, Dave.
Can it happen, maybe. Will it happen. Beats me, man.
The more I think about it, the more I suspect it'll be completely by accident. Some AI designed drug will pass all trials, get approved, be used for years or decades only to find out that some bit of it kind of acts like a generic prion that affects all life. Oh, and that bit also passes right through you, too, so by the time they figure it out, the pseudo-prion is already out there in the wild, infecting fish and other aquatic creatures. And before long the ecosystems of the world's oceans and lakes collapse. Meanwhile land animals also start dying off due to their drinking supply being polluted by it, so a full scale ecological collapse begins. As the pseudoprion sticks around indefinitely, every attempt by nature to evolve new life ends because of it. Eventually it gets buried by all the detritus of time and new life does once again rise only to have humanity's ticking time bomb waiting in the ground for something to dig it up and start the whole cycle all over again...
Didn't a bunch of "researchers" think the world was going to end in 2012 for some reason?
No?
I mean, if you stretch those airquotes pretty hard, but not sure why you'd compare those people to this case
