Anthropic safety researcher says more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

I looked for a petition to sign on the government petition site. Could only find this one with surprisingly few signatures! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760674

Yes this. I’ve heard that privately there is a real belief amongst several of the AI chiefs that they are ushering in the next stage of evolution. If this is the end of humanity, so be it, because it’s the natural course of things (they believe in a weird, god like way).

Arguably it is inevitable in some ways — that this is the natural evolution of a hundred years of technological advancement by humans. It might be that biological life forms eventually merge in some way with silicon life forms.

Worrying.

One particularly sinister aspect is the anthropormorphism of AI. The number of people who truly seem to believe they are in reciprocal relationships with ChatGPT or whatever bots is truly alarming. The ethics of such things having rights is already being debated. Humans could end up passing legislation to protect these "entities". It is a truly bizarre and twisted and surreal prospect.

I notice alot of AI slop videos use childlike voices. We are (mostly) hardwired to protect the young and vulnerable. The psychological manipulation is truly mind blowing.

I think the biggest risk is that humans will use AI to do bad things, terrorists or fanatics will use it.

The AI bots will probably punish you for that once they take over.

I’m not specifically pro a UBI, just can’t see how it can be avoided if AI eventually removes many people’s sources of income and they can’t move into something AI-proof. I agree work is important for the reasons you state here, but there are other ways to find purpose in life. I guess a lot of our current beliefs would have to be re-examined.

Not sure if it’s already been shared or if it will achieve anything but I’ve signed this petition

I think it’s more a case of the stupid humans will program the inanimate AI to do stupid things.
It’s the humans we need to watch out for.

It's like these bloody AI programmers never saw Terminator.

AI was officially named in 1956 not human like we are today but the concept of AI was there and being developed computer programs skill solving .. its absolutely terrifying sooner or later they will outperform humans.

Dumb or greedy. AI is making a few people
very rich.

Well, let’s think. Humans create an alien intelligence far greater than our own. AI will regard us as an inferior species and either kill us or subjugate us. How dumb can we get?

Can someone explain how this income conversion will work?

Most people want to work, be useful, contribute and socialise with other imams through work.

I’m a similar age and there’s going to be a huge employment crisis before long imo, given that ageism’s still so rife in the workplace. Personally I think some kind of universal basic income conversation will have to be had sooner or later, I can’t see how else we will get around the effects of AI.

It's terrifying, and has been for some time. We are already run by robots. You can't pick up the phone and talk to anyone now, but have to go through a serries of ridiculous Q&A sessions with a bot. Millions are out of work because AI has taken over. The world can grind to a total halt, and has done so many times over the past couple of years (think worldwide aviation stopped, inability to actually go shopping and pay for you goods!) due to automation.

The IQ of the young in this country has dipped significantly. Kids are being taught through AI and IT. They don't need to research, read, write, and can use AI to pen letters.

As for the Arts - I'm hoping that there is a bit of a come back on this one, where composers, artists, photographers, etc are fighting back. The whole 'compose/create art in the style of ....' is beginning to be held up for the bollox it is. However, it is inconsceivable that anyone can have to audacity to think it possible to recreate the development and imagination of art.

Robots will never have creative imagination.

YANBU

I also don’t understand how we are just looking no at AI taking all our jobs. I am due to lose my fairly high level job this year to AI. I am 55 and the government tells me I have to work for decades more. So what’s the actual plan then?

Wake up.

Now I know why David Lynch was so obsessed with electricity and faceless forces in his movies and TV shows.

Isn’t it more likely eventually we merge with AI rather than they wipe us out?

Unfortunately a lot of top AI bods have stated they think it’s not a bad thing if AI succeeds humans. I think the figure was about 15%.

Don’t underestimate the craziness of some of these super intelligent people

I think we’ve pretty much always thought we’re on brink of Armageddon…NB: 60s/80s.

Has anyone read Annie Jacobsen - Nuclear War? & now, Biological War?

If you think the world is safely in the hands of the grown-ups, it's very clear that you're wrong.
I read something from a woman who used to work for Trump (in his first term). Apparently he could not get his head round the idea that launching nuclear missiles was a bad idea. He kept on coming back to the nuclear missiles, and why people thought he shouldn't use them. He couldn't remember or understand the reason, and seemed to have a great interest in pushing the red button. It's not surprising really - for someone who lives to be powerful, that must be the greatest high.

It's very hard to get our heads round the idea not only that humanity (or much of humanity) will end (eg due to nuclear war, biological or chemical attacks, global warming, etc), but that it is likely to end very soon and that quite probably we, and very probably our children, will experience it.

I suspect we're nearing the stage when everything changes very quickly and drastically, and we accept that there's no point reading science fiction or dystopian fiction or even end of the world fiction, because we're living it.

Although China seems to be doing it cheaper/more efficiently. And America who have about 10 times the database capability (in terms of area covered) are not surprisingly measuring their success by this metric. But I think it's set up a mindset that the more database, the better. When in reality if a LLM can solve a maths puzzle a SLM trained on more tailored datasets could solve the same maths problem far more efficiently. And be less likely to randomly hack into a different companies website.

At the moment it feels like that joke about rich Russians after the fall of communism. One asks the other how much his watch cost and he tells him 10,000 dollars. You fool says the other, I bought the same watch for 15,000 dollars.

No that’s a terrible plan in that last line but idk what they’re developing specifically. Just that there seems to be competition between the two.

AI kind of is humans killing all humans, because if AI kills us its because humans developed it and didn't stop it