Current AI Won’t Reach Superintelligence, Yet Catastrophic Risk Remains, Experts Warn
Original headline: Today’s AI won’t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma
Many Silicon Valley leaders say superintelligence poses an imminent societal threat, and the White House has issued an AI accord, but experts say it is insufficient. Geoffrey Hinton estimates at least a 10% chance of human extinction in the coming decades, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that unchecked AI could outpace our ability to understand it.
Existing regulatory measures are unlikely to contain the rapid emergence of dangerous AI.
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