Are Unfriendly AI the Biggest Risk to Humanity?

Are Unfriendly AI the Biggest Risk to Humanity? (investing.com)

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on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:34PM

from the all-in-favor-say-AI dept.

“Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin believes that unfriendly artificial intelligence poses the biggest risk to humanity…” reports a recent article from Benzinga:

[In a tweet] Buterin shared a paper by AI theorist and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky that made a case for why the current research community isn’t doing enough to prevent a potential future catastrophe at the hands of artificially generate intelligence. [The paper’s title? “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities.”]

When one of Buterin’s Twitter followers suggested that World War 3 is likely a bigger risk at the moment, the Ethereum co-founder disagreed. “Nah, WW3 may kill 1-2b (mostly from food supply chain disruption) if it’s really bad, it won’t kill off humanity. A bad AI could truly kill off humanity for good.”