> Few people believe AGI guarantees the extinction of humanity.
“Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn” - BBC front page news headline earlier today in reaction to this story.
This is the problem. Reading that BBC article will make your average joe petrified. “Extinction” is a much catchier headline than the slow creep of automation replacing/changing jobs. The latter is literally already happening around us right now and it serves some of those signatories if those issues aren’t regulated against [1]. I’m not saying forget about extinction threat. Clearly that’s an important risk to manage, but let’s not ignore these near term, huge disruptions because policy makers are busy reacting to distracting headlines.
“Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn” - BBC front page news headline earlier today in reaction to this story.
This is the problem. Reading that BBC article will make your average joe petrified. “Extinction” is a much catchier headline than the slow creep of automation replacing/changing jobs. The latter is literally already happening around us right now and it serves some of those signatories if those issues aren’t regulated against [1]. I’m not saying forget about extinction threat. Clearly that’s an important risk to manage, but let’s not ignore these near term, huge disruptions because policy makers are busy reacting to distracting headlines.
Edit: add ref; [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-may-leave-eu-if-re...