There Is a Solution to AI’s Existential Risk Problem [Video]

Technological progress can excite us, politics can infuriate us, and wars can mobilize us. But faced with the risk of human extinction that the rise of artificial intelligence is causing, we have remained surprisingly passive. In part, perhaps this was because there did not seem to be a solution. This is an idea I would like to challenge.

AI’s capabilities are ever-improving. Since the release of ChatGPT two years ago, hundreds of billions of dollars have poured into AI. These combined efforts will likely lead to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), where machines have human-like cognition, perhaps within just a few years.

Hundreds of AI scientists think we might lose control over AI once it gets too capable, which could result in human extinction. So what can we do?

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The existential risk of AI has often been presented as extremely complex. A 2018 paper, for example, called the development of safe human-level …