Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a 50% chance of wiping out humanity, according to Max Tegmark
Posted Date – Tue, 6 Jun 23 at 07:20 AM
New York: According to MIT physicist Max Tegmark, artificial intelligence (AI) has a 50-50 chance of wiping out humanity.
Humans, known as the most intelligent species on Earth, were responsible for the extinction of “lower” species such as the dodo, Tegmark said. Likewise, we may meet a similar fate when artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans, he said, according to the Daily Mail.
“About half of all other species on Earth have been wiped out by us humans,” an artificial intelligence expert was quoted as saying.
“Because we’re smarter, they can’t control it.
“What we’re warning now is that if we humans cede control of society to machines that are much smarter than we are, things could be just as bad for us,” he noted.
Tegmark is one of a growing number of industry experts warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Last month, leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI labs warned in an open letter that future systems could be as deadly as epidemics and nuclear weapons.
“Mitigating the risk of AI extinction should become a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” read a one-sentence statement released by the nonprofit Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety. The open letter was signed by more than 350 executives, researchers and engineers working on AI.
The statement comes amid growing concerns about the potential harms of artificial intelligence, led by ChatGPT and other chatbots, that could eliminate millions of white-collar jobs.
However, some experts also claim that the existential threat of AI technology may currently be “exaggerated”.
According to TechCrunch, New York University professor Gary Marcus said that artificial intelligence is “a threat to democracy, not a threat to humanity.”
Potential threats to democracy from AI, he said, range from “deliberate misinformation by bad actors, to accidental misinformation. You can also use these tools to manipulate other people and potentially trick them into whatever you want.” thing”.
Instead of focusing on the extinction of the human race, governments should warn against the ultra-rapid development and adoption of artificial intelligence, he said.
