'Sadly, I now feel that we're living the movie 'Don't Look Up' for another existential threat: unaligned superintelligence.'
MIT professor and AI researcher Max Tegmark is pretty stressed out about the potential impact of artificial general intelligence on human society. In a, he rings the alarm bells, painting a pretty dire picture of a future determined by an AI that can outsmart us.
For those who haven't seen it, "Don't Look Up" is a fictional story about a team of astronomers who, after discovering that a species-destroying asteroid is hurtling towards Earth, set out to warn the rest of human society. But to their surprise and frustration, a massive chunk of humanity doesn't care.
"A recent survey showed that half of AI researchers give AI at least ten percent chance of causing human extinction," the researcher continued. "Since we have such a long history of thinking about this threat and what to do about it, from scientific conferences to Hollywood blockbusters, you might expect that humanity would shift into high gear with a mission to steer AI in a safer direction than out-of-control superintelligence.
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