At last Wednesday’s meeting of the Bloomington city council, Dave Rollo used his time for councilmember reports at the start of the meeting to deliver eight minutes of extemporaneous remarks about the dangers of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
It’s worth contrasting artificial general intelligence with artificial intelligence developed to perform narrow tasks—like converting the audio from councilmember speeches to text, or sharpening out-of-focus photographs.
In his remarks, Rollo cited AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s recent op-ed in TIME magazine “Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down”
Yudkowsky is not exactly enthusiastic about AI. From the TIME op-ed: [T]he most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in ‘maybe possibly some remote chance,’ but as in ‘that is the obvious thing that would happen.’” Continue reading “Opinion: If AI is going to kill us all, let’s make it do some work before we die”
