Top artificial intelligence (AI) leaders, including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, joined experts and professionals raising the risks of extinction from AI and urging policymakers to see it as a global priority.
The official statement released on Tuesday in an open letter said that “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
The short statement from the Centre for AI Safety (CAIS) was supported and signed by various AI scientists and notable figures, including Geoffrey Hinton (Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto) who is revered as the Godfather of AI, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI), Lila Ibrahim (COO of Google DeepMind), and Kevin Scott (CTO of Microsoft).
The technology has been growing at a rapid pace ever since OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT was released for public use in November last year. The ability of the technology to imitate and responding like humans left both the general users and experts amazed.
Earlier this year, Altman came in front of the US Senate, urging them to pass regulations in connection with the dangers AI proposes.
The CAIS director Dan Hendrycks said that, “We asked many Meta employees to sign and we’ve extended an invitation to Musk, and hopefully he’ll sign it this week.”
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