Advanced AI keeps Sundar Pichai up at night and makes Sam Altman a bit scared. Here's why some tech execs are wary of its potential dangers.
, Altman said that"people should be happy" that his company was"a little bit scared" of the potential of artificial intelligence.DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, is one of the world's leading AI labs. The company's CEO, Demis Hassabis, has also been urging caution around AI development., referring to an old Facebook motto coined by Mark Zuckerberg, which encouraged engineers to approach work with speed and experimentation.
"When it comes to very powerful technologies — and obviously AI is going to be one of the most powerful ever — we need to be careful," he said."It's like experimentalists, many of whom don't realize they're holding dangerous material." "Philosophers haven't really settled on a definition of consciousness yet but if we mean self-awareness, and these kinds of things ... I think there's a possibility that AI one day could be," he said.
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