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'AI godfather' sounds the alarm on growing risks in the AI race

Elon Musk

Rishi Sunak

Kamala Harris

Bill Gates

Andrew Ng

Yoshua Bengio

Fei-Fei Li

Demis Hassabis

Melanie Mitchell

Sam Altman

Dario Amodei

Geoffrey Hinton

Yann LeCun

Gary Marcus

Max Tegmark

Connor Leahy

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Jaan Tallinn

Marc Andreessen

Eric Schmidt

Norbert Wiener

Arthur Clarke

Irving John Good

Claude Shannon

Hans Moravec

John Smart

There's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.

"Worrying about AI today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

Concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."

Claiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."

"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."

Current AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.

AI is the "biggest existential threat" to humanity.

AGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."

Powerful AI systems "taking control" pose an "existential threat."

AI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.

"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."

Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?

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Stuart Russell

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"AI may cause the most dramatic and sustained economic boom of all time."

AI will make the world "way wealthier" and lead to a "productivity boom."

AI is an "amplifier of human intelligence" and will help the economy thrive.

AI will enable "universal high income" in place of "universal basic income."

"AI may become the heart of future economic growth in the coming decades."

AI harms could include "disrupting economies."

AI could "disrupt job markets."

"AI and technological unemployment" are the "biggest problem we face" from an "economic point of view."

"The moment superintelligent AI emerges, the human economy will end."

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Shane Legg

Society is more likely to get "cat-level" or "dog-level" AI years before human-level AI.

"[W]e will eventually reach AGI... and quite possibly before the end of this century."

"Superhuman AIs" will be achieved "between a few years and a couple of decades."

"Digital intelligence" could overtake us within "5 to 20 years."

We may achieve "something like AGI or AGI-like in the next decade."

"[W]e could get to real AGI in the next decade."

"Human-level" AI could occur in "two or three years."

"I'd be surprised if we don't have AGI by [2029]."

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence, and When?

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Brad Smith

Nestor Maslej

Ruth Porat

Ylli Bajraktari

Bruegel

National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

Brandon J. Weichert

Clement Delangue

Zhou Hongyi

Joseph Tsai

Huey-Meei Chang

Craig S. Smith

Jeffrey Ding

Ray Perrault

Susana Martinez

Niall Ferguson

Larry Elliot

Marcel Munch

Pavel Durov

John Rush

"I think, today, [China is] probably two years behind the top [AI] models [from the US]."

"Where China sits [in AI], I think, is very far behind the US."

"The United States is in a strong position to win the essential [AI] race with China."

"China will dominate AI."

"The combination with China's self-made chips + AI infrastructure stack will put China ahead of the US."

China would "undoubtedly come out on top [in the US-China AI race]."

"[I]t seems like the United States is really far ahead [when it comes to generative AI]."

"China will lead the world in AI development."

In 2025, "China will start to lead the AI race (as a consequence of leading the open-source AI race)."

Will China Surpass the US in AI?

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday establishing the Genesis Mission, a national initiative to integrate artificial intelligence into scientific research and accelerate innovation and discovery across federal agencies.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday establishing the Genesis Mission, a national initiative to integrate artificial intelligence into scientific research and accelerate innovation and discovery across federal agencies.

The Genesis Mission directs Energy Secretary Chris Wright to create the American Science and Security Platform, which will integrate the nation's supercomputers and federal datasets to train scientific foundation models and power robotic laboratories.

The Genesis Mission directs Energy Secretary Chris Wright to create the American Science and Security Platform, which will integrate the nation's supercomputers and federal datasets to train scientific foundation models and power robotic laboratories.

The initiative aims to address scientific challenges in priority domains including advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.

The initiative aims to address scientific challenges in priority domains including advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.

Administration officials compared the Genesis Mission to historic national efforts like the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program, describing it as one of the largest research and development projects in United States history.

Administration officials compared the Genesis Mission to historic national efforts like the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program, describing it as one of the largest research and development projects in United States history.

The Department of Energy has announced partnerships with technology companies including Nvidia, AMD, Dell and HPE to build supercomputing facilities at national laboratories to support the mission's computational requirements.

The Department of Energy has announced partnerships with technology companies including Nvidia, AMD, Dell and HPE to build supercomputing facilities at national laboratories to support the mission's computational requirements.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated the initiative seeks to pivot private sector AI efforts toward scientific discovery and engineering advancements, utilizing datasets contained across the nation's 17 national laboratories.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated the initiative seeks to pivot private sector AI efforts toward scientific discovery and engineering advancements, utilizing datasets contained across the nation's 17 national laboratories.

Trump Launches Genesis Mission: AI-Powered Scientific Initiative

Trump launchesLaunches ‘Genesis Mission’: AI-Powered Scientific Initiative

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Mitchell

Li

Bengio

Musk

Altman

Hinton

Amodei

Yudkowsky

Andreessen

Altman

LeCun

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Bengio

Mitchell

Harris

Russell

Tallinn

LeCun

Marcus

Bengio

Hinton

Hassabis

Altman

Amodei

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Tsai

Ding

Smith

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Munch

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