Top managers in their field artificial intelligence, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman again warned of the “danger of extinction”.

“Reducing the risk of AI extinction should be a global priority along with other societal risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” wrote the 350 signatories of the letter published by the nonprofit Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAIS).

The above include executives from AI companies DeepMind and Anthropic, as well as executives from Microsoft and Google. They also included Geoffrey Hinton and Joshua Begio — two of the three so-called “Godfathers of AI” who received the 2018 Turing Award for their work in deep learning — as well as professors at institutions ranging from Harvard to Tsinghua University in China. .

Recall that Hinton he said that chatbots could soon go beyond the level of intelligence belongs to the human brain. “Right now we’re seeing things like GPT-4 dwarf the individual in how much general knowledge they have, and eclipse them in so many ways.” He indicated that he was not so good at reasoning, “but he was already applying the methods of simple logic.” And given the pace of progress, “we expect the situation to improve fairly quickly. So we have to worry about that.”

This is the second open letter on the dangers of AI in recent times, following a warning signed in April by Elon Musk, AI experts and technology executives.

The emergence of tools that generate text, images and other content at the direction of the user has raised concerns about job losses, worsening misinformation and invasion of privacy, while some experts say they fear machines will soon become smarter than humans.

According to the Financial Times