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Unintended consequences: U.S. election results could vastly accelerate AI development
AI accelerationists have won as a consequence of the election, potentially sidelining those advocating for a more cautious approach.
The letter was initially signed by more than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers, including Elon Musk, Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, 2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, podcaster Lex Fridman, and AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell. That said, a study released early this year, well before the election and representing the views of more than 2,700 AI researchers, showed that “the median prediction for extremely bad outcomes, such as human extinction, was 5%.” Would you board a plane if there were a 5% chance it might crash? These include Andrew Ng (who founded and led the Google Brain project) and Pedro Domingos (a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington and author of “ The Master Algorithm ”).
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