The Role of Brain-Computer Interfaces in AI Safety

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AI can read the thoughts of people willing to spend many hours in extremely elaborate and expensive experimental setups that allow them to do so. For all these mind-reading AIs to be applicable to the general population, we'd all have to voluntarily undergo a day's worth of very specific brain scans and agree to have the resultant data uploaded to some open access archive. The hurdle of every human brain thinks in its own unique way, even at the neurophysiological level, isn't one I see being cleared any time soon.

Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI that, after being trained on a particular person's brain, can translate their thoughts into text. The news brief covers: IBM replacing 7800 future hires with AI Dropbox lays off 500 in pivot to AI Meta AI on earnings call Amazon building improved LLM for Alexa Geoffrey Hinton 'Godfather of AI' leaves Google to warn of dangers of AI White House looking into use of AI for employee tracking Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/