Over 100 CEOs and scientists have signed a statement warning of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). The statement, issued by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), urged politicians to class AI as a risk of extinction, alongside pandemics and nuclear war. Signatories included Denis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, musician Grimes, and AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. CAIS warned that large language model AI systems are comparable in their world-changing capacity to the development of the nuclear bomb. The statement follows a March open letter in which Elon Musk called for a six-month pause in the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Music creation sites like Boomy have generated AI-made tracks reaching millions of uploads. Executive worries have been sparked by the amount of AI-generated music that are getting streamed on platforms. AI technology has the potential to eliminate up to 300 million full-time jobs, according to Goldman Sachs. However, revelations about the chatbot’s limitations have prompted some to question their usefulness. Research has found issues with AI, including the creation of false information.
