{"id":7938,"date":"2023-11-01T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/sam-altman-warns-ai-could-kill-us-all-but-he-still-wants-the-world-to-use-it\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:30:12","slug":"sam-altman-warns-ai-could-kill-us-all-but-he-still-wants-the-world-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=7938","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman warns AI could kill us all. But he still wants the world to use it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Sam Altman thinks the technology underpinning his company\u2019s most famous product could bring about the end of human civilization.\n <\/p>\n

\n In May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman filed into a Senate subcommittee hearing room in Washington, DC, with an urgent plea to lawmakers: Create thoughtful regulations that embrace the powerful promise of artificial intelligence \u2013 while mitigating the risk that it overpowers humanity. It was a\u202fdefining moment for him\u202fand for the future of AI.\n <\/p>\n

\n With the launch of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT late last year, Altman, 38, emerged overnight as the poster child for a new crop of AI tools that can generate images and texts in response to user prompts, a technology called generative AI. Not long after its release, ChatGPT became a household name almost synonymous with AI itself. CEOs used it to\u202fdraft emails, people built websites with no prior coding experience, and it\u202fpassed exams\u202ffrom law and business schools. It has the potential to revolutionize nearly every industry, including education, finance, agriculture and healthcare, from surgeries to medicine vaccine development.\n <\/p>\n

\n But those\u202fsame tools have raised concerns about everything from cheating in schools and displacing human workers \u2013 even an existential threat to humanity. The rise of AI, for example, has led economists to warn of a labor market. As many as\u202f300 million full-time jobs\u202faround the world could eventually be automated in some way by generative AI, according to Goldman Sachs estimates. About\u202f14 million positions\u202fcould disappear in the next five years alone, according to an April report by the World Economic Forum.\n <\/p>\n

\n In his testimony before Congress, Altman said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters and target disinformation were among \u201cmy areas of greatest concern.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Two weeks after the hearing, Altman joined hundreds of top AI scientists, researchers and business leaders in signing a letter stating: \u201cMitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The warning was widely covered in the press, with some suggesting it showed the need to take such apocalyptic scenarios more seriously. It also highlighted an important dynamic in Silicon Valley: Top executives at some of the biggest tech companies are telling the public that AI has the potential to bring about human extinction while also racing to invest in and deploy this technology into products that reach billions of people.\n <\/p>\n

\n Although Altman, a longtime entrepreneur and Silicon Valley investor, largely stayed out of the spotlight in prior years, eyes have shifted to him in recent months as the poster child for the AI revolution. This has also exposed him to litigation,<\/em>\u202fregulatory scrutiny and both praise and condemnation around the world.\n <\/p>\n

\n That day in front of the Senate subcommittee, however, Altman described the technology\u2019s current boom as a pivotal moment.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cIs [AI] gonna be like the printing press that diffused knowledge, power, and learning widely across the landscape that empowered ordinary, everyday individuals that led to greater flourishing, that led above all two greater liberty?\u201d he said. \u201cOr is it gonna be more like the atom bomb \u2013 huge technological breakthrough, but the consequences (severe, terrible) continue to haunt us to this day?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Altman has long presented himself as someone who is mindful of the risks posed by AI, and he\u202fhas pledged to move forward responsibly. He is one of several tech CEOs to\u202fmeet with White House leaders, including Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden, to emphasize the importance of ethical and responsible AI development.\n <\/p>\n

\n Others want Altman and OpenAI to move more cautiously. Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI before breaking from the group, and dozens of tech leaders, professors and researchers in\u202furged\u202fartificial intelligence labs like OpenAI to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing \u201cprofound risks to society and humanity.\u201d\u202f(At the same time, some experts questioned if those who signed the letter sought to maintain their competitive edge over other companies.)\n <\/p>\n

\n Altman said he agreed with parts of the letter, including that \u201cthe safety bar has got to increase,\u201d but said a pause would not be an \u201coptimal way\u201d to address the challenges.\n <\/p>\n

\n Still, OpenAI has its foot placed firmly on the gas pedal. Most recently, OpenAI and iPhone designer Jony Ive have\u202freportedly\u202fbeen in talks to raise $1 billion from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank for an AI device to replace the smartphone.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Those who know Altman have described him as someone who makes prescient bets\u202fand has even been called \u201ca startup Yoda\u201d or the \u201cKevin Bacon of Silicon Valley,\u201d having worked with seemingly everyone in the industry. Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise cloud company Box and a longtime friend of Altman who came up with him in the startup world, told CNN that Altman is \u201cintrospective\u201d and wants to debate ideas, get different points of view and endlessly encourages\u202ffeedback on whatever he\u2019s working on.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019ve always found him to be incredibly self-critical on ideas and willing to take any kind of feedback on any topic that he\u2019s been involved with over the years,\u201d Levie said.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Bern Elliot, an analyst at Gartner Research, noted the famous clich\u00e9: There\u2019s a risk to putting all your eggs in one basket, no matter how much trust you may place in it.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cMany things can happen to one basket,\u201d he added.\n <\/p>\n

\n When starting OpenAI, Altman told CNN in 2015 he wanted to steer the path of AI, rather than worrying about the potential harms and doing nothing. \u201cI sleep better knowing I can have some influence now,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Despite his leadership status, Altman says he remains concerned about the technology. \u201cI prep for survival,\u201d he said in\u202fa 2016 profile\u202fin the New Yorker, noting several possible disaster scenarios, including \u201cA.I. that attacks us.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Some AI industry experts say, however, that focusing attention on far-off apocalyptic scenarios may distract from the more immediate harms that a new generation of powerful AI tools can cause to people and communities. Rowan Curran, an analyst at market research firm Forrester, acknowledged the legitimate concerns around making sure training data, particularly for enormous models, has minimal bias \u2013 or has a bias that is understood and can be mitigated.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe idea of an \u2018AI apocalypse\u2019 as a realistic scenario that presents any kind of danger to humanity \u2013 particularly in the short and medium term, is just speculative techno-mythology,\u201d he said. \u201cThe continued focus on this as one of the big risks that comes along with advancement of AI distracts from the very real challenges we have today to reduce current and future harms from data and models being applied unjustly by human actors.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In perhaps the biggest sweeping effort to date, President Biden unveiled an executive order earlier this week that will require developers of powerful AI systems to share results of their safety tests with the federal government before they are released to the public, if they pose national security, economic or health risks.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Following the Senate hearing, Emily Bender, a professor at the University of Washington and director of its Computational Linguistics Laboratory, expressed\u202fconcerns over what a future looks like with AI even if it\u2019s heavily regulated. \u201cIf they honestly believe that this could be bringing about human extinction, then why not just stop?\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Margaret O\u2019Mara, a tech historian and professor at the University of Washington, said good policymaking should be informed by multiple perspectives and interests, not just by one or few people, and shaped with the public interest in mind.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe challenge with AI is that only a very few people and firms really understand how it works and what the implications are of its use,\u201d said O\u2019Mara, noting similarities to the world of nuclear physics before and during the Manhattan Project\u2019s development of the atomic bomb.\n <\/p>\n

\n Still, O\u2019Mara said many people across the tech industry are rooting for Altman to be the force to revolutionize society with AI but make it safe.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis time is akin to what Gates and Jobs did for the personal computing moment of the early 1980s, and the software moment of the 1990,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a real hope that we can have tech that makes things better, if the people who are making it are good people, smart and care about the right things. Sam embodies that for AI right now.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The world is counting on\u00a0Altman to act in the best interest of humanity with a technology by his own admission could be a weapon of mass destruction. Although he may be a smart and qualified leader, he\u2019s still just that: one person.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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