The heads of tech giants have warned that the artificial intelligence technologies they are working on could one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be treated as a risk equal to pandemics and nuclear wars. The newspaper writes about it New Yoek Times.
“Reducing the risk of human extinction due to artificial intelligence should be a global priority, along with other societal risks such as epidemics and nuclear war,” the statement said.
The open letter was signed by more than 350 leaders, researchers and engineers working in the field of artificial intelligence. Among them are top executives of three leading AI companies: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
It was noted that Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two of the three researchers who received the Turing Award for their work in the field of neural networks, also signed the declaration. They are also often referred to as the “godfathers” of modern AI.
The statement was published at a time when there were growing concerns about AI’s potential harm to humanity. The rise of AI-enabled chatbots like ChatGPT has fueled fears that AI will soon begin to actively put people out of work.
Earlier in May, LinkedIn co-founder Reed Hoffman told Fortune in an interview. gave an idea The development of AI will lead to mass layoffs of employees of companies with certain skills, but the technology will also allow the development of new jobs where specialists will work with AI.