"AI Safety Clock" launches
"AI Safety Clock" launches
The Facts
Last month, the IMD Business School launched its AI Safety Clock, with the goal of "mak[ing] clear that the dangers of uncontrolled AGI (artificial general intelligence) are real and present" according to TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation Director Michael Wade.
The clock, currently with a reading of 29 minutes to midnight, claims to monitor three key factors: AI sophistication, AI autonomy, and AI physical integration. These factors are stated to be monitored via information from over 1K websites and nearly 3.5K news feeds.
The Spin
The AI Safety Clock is a symbolic attempt to highlight the urgent need for domestic and international actors alike to wake up and finally acknowledge the real risks that new technology poses upon the world. Whilst there is still time to avoid disaster, it is imperative that humanity acts now before we have passed the point of return.
A Saudi-backed business school's newly-released AI Safety Clock is yet another example of sensationalist AI doomerism. Ironically, the very same month that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist's debunked outrageous claims of AI hyperbole have IBM cheaply recreated their Doomsday Clock without any scientific justification for its existence.
