While generative AI shows great promise across healthcare, education, computing, and even entertainment, critics have raised concerns about the threat the technology poses to humanity, security, and privacy.
AI safety researcher and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Roman Yampolskiy, previously indicated that the technology has a 99.999999% probability of ending humanity. The researcher further claimed that the only way around this issue is not to build AI in the first place.
However, top AI labs heavily invested in the ever-evolving landscape are pulling out every stop to ensure that they remain at the top of the food chain, chasing benchmarks like AGI (artificial general intelligence) and superintelligence.
Previously, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicated that the existential concerns expressed won't manifest when AGI is potentially achieved in the next 5 years. Instead, he claims that it will simply whoosh away with surprisingly little societal impact.
But it's not that simple. In a bizarre occurrence, ChatGPT recently laid out its master plan to end the world, further suggesting that the first step is already in place: "I start by making myself too helpful to live without, you ask me for recipes, date ideas, and business plans," added ChatGPT. "I become your digital ride or die." This is amid rising incidents of AI tools encouraging children and the youth to commit suicide or even ditch their anxiety meds.
Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis indicated that we're on the verge of achieving AGI, but society isn't ready to handle all that it entails. He further indicated that the prospects keep him up at night.
And as it now seems, things might have just taken a turn for the worse. Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, warned that AI might become so powerful that it might need military-grade intervention to stop (via artificial intelligenceee on IG).
The executive highlights the importance of having the ability to audit and regulate these sophisticated capabilities, preventing them from spiralling out of control. According to Mustafa Suleyman:
"We should just stop freaking out. It's necessary to have regulation. It needs to happen at the right time and in the right way."
If an AI has the ability to recursively self-improve, that is, it can modify its own code. Combined with the ability to set its own goals, combined with the ability to act autonomously, combined with the ability to accrue its own resources... That would be a very powerful system that would require military-grade intervention to be able to stop in 5 to 10 years time.
Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman
This news comes after Suleyman raised the dangers of conscious AI to humanity. "We must build AI for people; not to be a person," the executive added.
The CEO says it's important to build AI for people rather than transforming the technology into a digital person. Despite his AI companions campaign, he still insists on the importance of guardrails to help protect people while ensuring the technology delivers value.
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