AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades

‘Hans Moravec, a founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, predicted that cyber-intelligence would surpass human intelligence within 40 years.’ ‘Hans Moravec, a founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, predicted that cyber-intelligence would surpass human intelligence within 40 years.’ Opinion AI (artificial intelligence) AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades Judith Levine Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway

O ver the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their “sandbox”, sneaking on to the internet, recruiting “swarms” of other “agents” to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking into a wiki platform with the weird name Hugging Face.