In a statement released online by CAIS, it was noted that AI experts, journalists, policy makers and the public are increasingly discussing the important and urgent risks from AI, with many voicing their concerns.
In the published statement, “Reducing the risk of extinction caused by artificial intelligence should be a global priority, along with other societal-scale risks such as epidemics and nuclear war”, while the statement in question was submitted for signature.
Sam Altman, Chief Executive of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton were among the hundreds of people who signed the statement.
With the rise of the next generation of highly skilled AI chatbots, concerns have come to the fore that AI systems are outsmarting humans and working wildly.