Humanity isn’t ready for the coming intelligence explosion
We must find a way to control AI, then to live side by side with it, writes Will MarshallIllustration: Dan WilliamsSOCIETY DICTATES that the acceptable risk of catastrophic meltdown for a nuclear power plant is roughly one in a million. Experts in artificial intelligence estimate the risk of an AI-caused catastrophic event at 10-50%. Strikingly, this concern is being openly voiced by the very people who have the strongest incentives to project confidence rather than alarm: the founders of the la...
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