Artificial intelligence could end the world, top researchers warn

New York Times “Artificial Intelligence Prompt That Could Bring the End of the World” It warns badly.

Actually, that’s a very weak word. This… is pretty scary.

Columnist Stephen Witt writes: “Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a professor of computer science at the University of Montréal, is the most cited living researcher in any discipline. When I spoke to him in 2024, Dr. Bengio told me he had trouble sleeping as he thought about the future. In particular, an AI could fight a killer pathogen (a kind of super-coronavirus).” He was worried about what he would produce. eliminate humanity. ‘I don’t think there’s anything close to that in terms of the magnitude of the danger,’ he said.

Yes, this is balanced with Meta’s AI chief seeing a new era of prosperity, but which one will you remember longer? I bet you’re the guy who can’t sleep.

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The Washington Post is joining the apocalyptic rhetoric race:

“Will AI destroy us? Consider the Nature of Intelligence.”

University of Chicago professor Eric Oliver says: “The fear about AI is not just that AI will take our jobs, ruin our politics, or undermine our ability to think, but something much worse: that AI will destroy humanity.”

Have a nice day!

There has been a positive AI boom lately; “Check out ChatGPT” and the like are everywhere. (iStock)

Moreover, Oliver writes“Many observers fear that once these new AI systems achieve such autonomous intelligence, they will seek to destroy us as a threat to their survival. Some industry leaders estimate the probability of such a disaster at 25%, but the data behind these predictions remains mysterious.”

So there’s a 1 in 4 chance that artificial intelligence created by humans will wipe us out from the face of the earth. Look on the bright side: That’s a 3 in 4 chance of us surviving our lives.

Last year saw a positive development in artificial intelligence: check out ChatGPT! You can create strange images or videos. Kids use it for homework (not very well) but so do their teachers. It’s fun, it’s crazy, and it’s not fattening. Elon Musk created version X called Grok.

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Each new technology has brought about the end of jobs but created greater efficiency. The invention of the carriage almost completely destroyed the horse-drawn carriage business. The advent of radio, television and the interwebs were not good for telegraph companies or manual typewriters. Somehow society adapted.

But now we’re suddenly in a new, darker “Twilight Zone.” It seems counterintuitive that since scientists created artificial intelligence, they have not been able to control it. And he still makes many mistakes.

It could transform our corrupt politics, increasingly dominated by social media and podcasts. Hakeem Jeffries was furious when Donald Trump pictured him with a handlebar mustache and a fedora, but at least it was clear.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DY) wasn’t too happy with President Trump’s depiction of him with a fedora and handlebar moustache. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

However, the dark side of the matter began to emerge. Celebrities, including long-dead people, are being reincarnated in chilling ways.

as someone else Publish the story “Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm

“One video showed police body camera footage of Whitney Houston appearing drunk. In some clips, King makes monkey noises during her ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, basketball player Kobe Bryant flies in a helicopter reflecting the crash that killed him and his daughter in 2020, and John F. Kennedy jokes about the recent killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.”

Yes, good taste is not exactly necessary. I’ve watched some of these and they’re frustratingly realistic; Except I have a brain that immediately perceives them as irrational.

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Times technology columnist Kevin Roose says“AI has replaced Google on basic questions for me: What setting do I put this toaster oven on to thaw the turkey? How do I stop weeds from growing on my porch? I use it for interior decorating; I’ll upload a photo of a room in my house and say: ‘Give this room a shine, tell me what furniture to buy and how to arrange it, and I’ll create the ‘after’ image.”

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We created this Frankenstein and he starts acting like a monster. Yes, AI was shaped by humans, so it seems odd that its creators didn’t or couldn’t create some safeguards. But the dire warnings remind many of us of the old protest song from the sixties: “You don’t believe we are on the Eve of Destruction.”