AI and the Risk to Humanity

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The first common counter argument that I hear people make when they just learned about this topic of AI and potentially posing a risk to all humanity is they say, well, it's really not that big a risk because if it starts doing dangerous stuff, we'll turn it off. So let's go through some common counter arguments to the view you're giving. And so it's quite funny. I'll give you the old school answer to this question and I'm going to give you the new school of answer. The robot isn't because it has a will to live or because it has, you know, some kind of consciousness or anything like that. But in our modern world, post GPT

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Does AI pose a near-term existential risk? Why might existential risks from AI manifest sooner rather than later? Can't we just turn off any AI that gets out of control? Exactly how much do we understand about what's going on inside neural networks? What is AutoGPT? How feasible is it to build an AI system that's exactly as intelligent as a human but no smarter? What is the "CoEm" AI safety proposal? What steps can the average person take to help mitigate risks from AI?

Connor Leahy is CEO and co-founder of Conjecture, an AI alignment company focused on making AI systems boundable and corrigible. Connor founded and led EleutherAI, the largest online community dedicated to LLMs, which acted as a gateway for people interested in ML to upskill and learn about alignment. With capabilities increasing at breakneck speed, and our ability to control AI systems lagging far behind, Connor moved on from the volunteer, open-source Eleuther model to a full-time, closed-source model working to solve alignment via Conjecture.

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