A group of business leaders and experts, including Sam Altman, the creator of ChatGPT, warned in an online statement on May 30 about the “extinction” threats to humanity posed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).
Addressing AI-related risks should be “a global priority alongside other society-wide risks such as pandemics and nuclear wars,” the signatories wrote on the website of the nonprofit Center for AI Safety. US-based profit. .
Geoffrey Hinton, considered one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence (AI) and also a forum signer, had already warned of its dangers when he left his post at the giant Google in early May.
Advances in the AI sector carry “profound risks for society and humanity,” he said at the New York Times.
“Great risks for humanity”
In March, billionaire Elon Musk, one of the founders of OpenAI, whose board he later left, and hundreds of world experts called for a six-month break from researching powerful AIs, citing “great risks to humanity.”
The rapid deployment of increasingly “general” artificial intelligence, endowed with human cognitive capabilities and thus likely to disrupt many professions, was symbolized by OpenAI’s March release of GPT-4, a new version most powerful of ChatGPT, open to the general public at the end of 2022.
The American Sam Altman regularly multiplies the warnings, fearing that the AI ”causes serious damage to the world”, rigging the elections or upsetting the labor market. Last week in Paris, he discussed with President Emmanuel Macron how to find “the right balance between protection and positive impact” from this technology.
Source: BFM TV
