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[ad_1] Sam Altman said that his dramatic and quickly-reversed firing at OpenAI was less nerve-wracking than how the world approaches making artificial intelligence as capable as humans.“As the world gets closer to AGI, the stakes, the stress, the level of tension — that's all going to go up,” the ChatGPT-maker's chief executive officer and co-founder said on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. AI has been a key theme at this year's Davos summit, with business leaders discussing how best to use the technology after a flurry of investment, while raising concerns about risks, including its potential impact on democracy during a bumper election year. The rapid advancements in the field and race by companies to achieve a hypothetical future artificial general intellige...

[ad_1] The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late.But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity? - Paperclips of doom - Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will outstrip human capacities, escape human control and refuse to be switched off."Once we have machines that have a self-preservation goal, we are in trouble," AI academic Yoshua Bengio told an event this month.But because these machines do not yet exist, imagining how they could doom humanity is often left to philosophy and science fiction.Philosopher Nick Bostrom has written about an "intelligence explosion" he says will happen when superintelligent machines begin ...

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