General Article AI is the most dangerous technology we’ve ever invented

Topic Selected: Artificial Intelligence Book Volume: 434

There is no known way to make sure that artificially intelligent systems behave in our interests. That’s a huge problem.

By Zvi Mowshowitz

Last week Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘Godfather of AI’, left Google to join the chorus of people warning about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs), and to urge us not to scale up such systems further. Hinton now predicts AIs may be smarter than humans within 5 to 20 years. He is concerned that they will learn unexpected ...

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