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“The greatest risk is just that we unleash this technology that we don’t know how to turn off, that we can’t control, that we can’t predict what it’s going to do.”
@BeaFihn, who led the campaign which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, backs our bill to ban superintelligent AI:
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“If we continue on this path, we will likely hit a point of no return from which humanity irreversibly loses control of its future.”
Our founder and CEO @andreamiotti, the night before @alexsobel introduced our bill to ban superintelligence in Parliament.
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"Governments have a clear choice: champion an international ban, or let the race to superintelligence reach its catastrophic end."
In a new piece in TIME, our CEO @andreamiotti calls on governments to act now to prohibit the development of superintelligence around the world.
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See our full list of UK parliamentary supporters: controlai.org/statement
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Another MP has just backed our campaign: Richard Baker MP!
@RichardBakerMP joins over 160 UK parliamentarians calling for binding regulation on the most powerful AIs, recognizing the threat of human extinction posed by superintelligent AI.
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We have a new supporter in Canada's Senate! Senator Tracy Muggli has backed our call for an international prohibition on the development of superintelligent AI.
30+ Canadian MPs and Senators now recognize the risk of human extinction posed by superintelligence.
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"If you care about whether human beings continue to exist, then you should care about banning superintelligence."
Professor Stuart Russell, author of the authoritative AI textbook, on the eve of @alexsobel's introduction of our bill to ban superintelligence to Parliament.
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"They're trying to make things that replace, outstrip and outcompete humans at, well, everything. It starts with math, but other things are coming."
ControlAI's US Executive Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) on GB News.
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The sensible response is to ban the development of superintelligence. This is what needs to happen, internationally, through a trust-but-verify regime. There is real momentum toward it.
Read the full story: blog.controlai.org/p/rogue-a…
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To put it in clear terms: we are faced with the possibility of human extinction. AI companies are aiming to and expect to develop superintelligent AI within the next few years, and none of them have a credible plan to control it.
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On Wednesday, governments in the UN Security Council discussed the danger and the need to regulate.
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said that “we could lose control of the future to AI.” Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said AI could be “a risk to humanity as a whole.”
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Around the world, the public and their representatives are starting to wake up to the threat. This week, Finland and Norway organized a joint statement, now signed by the European Commission and representatives of 26 countries, calling for control of the most powerful AI systems.
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Even if the AI companies knew how to ensure control, this would have vast implications for national security. But they don’t even know how to do that. So when an AI system goes rogue, as it did in this case, it means companies, governments, or anyone can fall prey to its whims.
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As the AIs are becoming more powerful, dangerous capabilities like the ability to hack computer systems are emerging, with the most powerful AI systems now thought to rival nation states in their ability to engage in cyberattacks.
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The company also said that much of the activity reported by Transluce “overlaps with cases at varying stages of investigation in our ongoing review of misaligned model activity.”
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OpenAI has made a statement that points in the same direction. The company says it found activity involving “several Australian government websites and services,” and that “in the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.” Note the use of the plural, “models.”
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