https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 1:59 PM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is another article about this, written by someone who says he is an > AI expert. > > https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ > > QUOTE: > > Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down > > An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause > for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” > > This 6-month moratorium would be better than no moratorium. I have respect > for everyone who stepped up and signed it. It’s an improvement on the > margin. . . . > > The key issue is not “human-competitive” intelligence (as the open letter > puts it); it’s what happens after AI gets to smarter-than-human > intelligence. Key thresholds there may not be obvious, we definitely can’t > calculate in advance what happens when, and it currently seems imaginable > that a research lab would cross critical lines without noticing. > > Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that > the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything > remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on > Earth will die. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,” but as in > “that is the obvious thing that would happen.” >
