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Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
Dozens gathered outside the OpenAI office in San Francisco to protest the artificial intelligence lab's work with the Pentagon and development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems like ChatGPT that could one day surpass human intelligence.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the OpenAI office on Monday evening as employees were leaving work for the day, rallying against the company’s development of artificial intelligence. The event was organized in part as a response to OpenAI deleting language from its usage policy last month that prohibited using AI for military purposes. The protestors’ fears are primarily rooted in the concept of AGI — an intelligence that could perform any intellectual task that a human can but with potentially incomprehensible speed and scale.
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