{"id":10069,"date":"2023-05-31T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10069"},"modified":"2023-05-31T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T08:18:14","slug":"leading-experts-warn-of-a-risk-of-extinction-from-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/31\/leading-experts-warn-of-a-risk-of-extinction-from-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm. Is this something to worry about? Those are some big words. Seen as the top story on NPR.org today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-600x519.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-600x519.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-120x104.png 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-768x665.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-1536x1330.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-2048x1773.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-1.11.11-AM-50x43.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/30\/1178943163\/ai-risk-extinction-chatgpt\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AI experts issued a dire warning on Tuesday: Artificial intelligence models could soon be smarter and more powerful than us and it is time to impose limits to ensure they don&#8217;t take control over humans or destroy the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,&#8221; a group of scientists and tech industry leaders said in a statement that was posted on the Center for AI Safety&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed AI research lab that is behind ChatGPT, and the so-called godfather of AI who recently left Google, Geoffrey Hinton, were among the hundreds of leading figures who signed the we&#8217;re-on-the-brink-of-crisis statement&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm. Is this something to worry about? Those are some big words. Seen as the top story on NPR.org today&#8230; (via) AI experts issued a dire warning on Tuesday: Artificial intelligence models could soon be smarter and more powerful than us and it is time to impose limits to ensure they don&#8217;t take control over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}