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Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Dangers of AI Being Exploited in the Military

In a few years, scientists could build an AI system that would be autonomous and dangerous for humanity. Maybe we even also have figured out how we can build safe AI that wouldn't behave like this. The problem is we have that choice. There's an organization called OroGPT which arose just in the last few weeks or months. It made it possible to turn something that has very little or no agency into something that actually pursues goals that the human would type.

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