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Artificial intelligence may pose a societal threat as dire as pandemics and nuclear war, according to a one-sentence\u00a0statement\u00a0released today by a nonprofit organization called the Center for AI Safety. It received over 350 signatures from\u00a0AI\u00a0researchers and a mix of executives at companies like Google and\u00a0Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The signers also included researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who are often\u00a0referred to\u00a0as the \u201cgodfathers of AI\u201d and received the Turing Award \u2014 essentially the Nobel Prize of computing \u2014 for their work on deep learning, a type of AI inspired by the human\u00a0brain.<\/p>\n

The brief yet piercing statement arrives just as fears mount that AI tools like ChatGPT could\u00a0replace\u00a0human jobs in various industries, from\u00a0journalism\u00a0to\u00a0food service, and promote dangerous misinformation online. Deepfake videos have already\u00a0emerged\u00a0online that appear to be crafted to sway the 2024 presidential election results.<\/p>\n

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Experts fear that artificial general intelligence could outsmart humans and imperil society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Many industry titans have shared their AI concerns in recent years. This past March, thousands of tech experts\u00a0signed\u00a0a letter demanding a pause on the \u201cout-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one \u2014 not even their creators \u2014 can understand, predict, or reliably control.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this new statement represents a \u201ccoming out\u201d for executives who have stayed quiet, Center for AI Safety Executive Director Dan Hendrycks\u00a0told\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very common misconception, even in the A.I. community, that there only are a handful of doomers,\u201d Hendrycks said. \u201cBut, in fact, many people privately would express concerns about these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ultimate fear is that engineers create artificial general intelligence, which is \u201cgenerally smarter than humans,\u201d\u00a0according to\u00a0OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who heads the company behind the influential tools GPT-4 and ChatGPT. In this case, computers could theoretically take over as our overlords. But some experts claim such a feat is pretty\u00a0far\u00a0off,\u00a0even\u00a0impossible.<\/p>\n

Given today\u2019s state of computing power, the grim picture painted by the recent statement likely wouldn\u2019t arrive for several decades. But some think that breakthroughs like quantum computing could\u00a0take\u00a0AI to new heights \u2014 meaning that researchers need to develop ethical guidelines for these technologies before we reach that point.<\/p>\n

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