AISN #5: Geoffrey Hinton speaks out on AI risk, the White House meets with AI labs, and Trojan attacks on language models.

Geoffrey Hinton is concerned about existential risks from AI

Geoffrey Hinton won the Turing Award for his work on AI. Now he says that part of him regrets his life’s work, as he believes that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. As Hinton puts it, “it’s quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.”

AI is developing more rapidly than Hinton expected. In 2015, Andrew Ng argued that worrying about AI risk is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars. Geoffrey Hinton also used to believe that advanced AI was decades away, but recent progress has changed his views. Now he says [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Geoffrey Hinton is concerned about existential risks from AI

(02:32) White House meets with AI labs

(04:22) Trojan Attacks on Language Models

(06:51) Assorted Links

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First published:
May 9th, 2023

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-5

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