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‘Very scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts
Meta CEO accused of being ‘irresponsible’ by considering making tools on par with human intelligence open source
Dame Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and a member of the UN’s advisory body on AI, said the prospect of open source AGI was “really very scary” and that it was irresponsible of Zuckerberg to consider it. Meta’s decision last year to open source Llama 2 drew criticism from some experts, including Hall, who said it was “a bit like giving people a template to build a nuclear bomb”. OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, sounded a note of caution at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, when he said further advances in AI would be impossible without a breakthrough in energy provision such as nuclear fusion.
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