1/2 degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth too hot for humans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250204132128.htm
* extreme heat threatens human life
* >260k heat-rel. fatalities 2000+
* anthropogenic warming will lead to more freq. uncompensable threshold crossings
* tripling uncompensable land area for young adults if warming reaches 2°C above preindustrial levels
Mortality impacts most extreme heat events
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-024-00635-w
What the Air Force doesn’t want us to notice on election night
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/05/what-the-air-force-doesnt-want-us-to-notice-on-election-night
reposted: https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/11/05/what-the-air-force-doesnt-want-us-to-notice-on-election-night
* while everyone’s attention on U.S. pres. election, U.S. Air Force will test-launch an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile w. dummy hydrogen bomb
* does this several times a year
* launches are always at night while Americans sleeping
#capitalism #militarism #MIC #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #NuclearWeapons #ExistentialRisks #ICBM #USAF
U.S. Keeps Pouring Money Into Nuclear Weapons
Pentagon carrying out $2 trillion/multiyear plan to build new nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, submarines
* increases risk of disastrous exchange of nuclear attacks
* great business for major weapons contractors
Doomsday Clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
#MIC #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #IndustrialComplexes #billionaires #corporations #militarism #GlobalSecurity #NuclearWeapons #capitalism #ExistentialRisks #DoomsdayClock
"Authorities should also “urgently” consider outlawing the publication of the “weights,” or inner workings, of powerful AI models, for example under open-source licenses, with violations possibly punishable by jail time, the report says..."
https://time.com/6898967/ai-extinction-national-security-risks-report/
From Daily Weather Forecasts to the Doomsday Clock: With chances increasing for Nuclear War, Sentient AI Drone Wars, and Global Societal Entropy: Can we predict Humanity's survival to the year 3024? #ExistentialRisks #GlobalChallenges #FutureCrossroads https://t.ly/ctCR4
Addendum 4
[2023-09-12] Tech giants at White House to discuss AI risks
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198885516/these-tech-giants-are-at-the-white-house-today-to-talk-about-the-risks-of-ai
* W.H. secured pledges f. 8 big tech companies to do more testing, reporting, research on risks posed by artificial intelligence
* Adobe, Cohere, IBM, NVIDIA, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, Stability
[2023-06-01] Experts issue a dire warning about AI and encourage limits be imposed
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179030677/experts-issue-a-dire-warning-about-ai-and-encourage-limits-be-imposed
#algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #AIrisks #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #ExistentialRisks #BigTech
Addendum 3
[Yoshua Bengio, 2023-06-24] FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks
https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-risks
See also:
[Yoshua Bengio, 2023-05-22] How Rogue AIs may Arise
https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise
[2023-06-24, Yoshua Bengio] FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks
https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-risks/
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110601069686173752
#YoshuaBengio #AIrisk #algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #AGI #superintelligence #ExistentialRisks #Bengio
Addendum 2
Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, ...
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxW6Gc6f2z3mzmqKs/debate-on-instrumental-convergence-between-lecun-russell
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31790269
[2023-05-02] Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai
“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
#algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #AGI #superintelligence #ExistentialRisks #Bengio #Hinton
Addendum 1
Older but great introduction/overview intended for general readership:
[1/2] The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Tim Urban, 2015-01-22
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
[2/2] The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction
Tim Urban, 2015-01-27
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
#WaitButWhy #TImUrban #algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #AGI #superintelligence #ExistentialRisks
[thread] Billionaires, existential risk from
Billionaires Are Existential Risk
Whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist
The real question is whether our species can survive billionaires
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/climate-crisis-artificial-intelligence-existential-risk-billionaires-capitalism
https://persagen.com >> search: billionaires AND existential
#billionaires #greed #profiteering #ExistentialRisks #neoliberalism #capitalism #DefundBillioniares #neofascism #meritocracy #plutocracy #WealthInequality #WealthConcentration #socialism #HumanRights #inequality
'Godfather of AI' shares 6 ways the tech might harm humans
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/godfather-of-ai-shares-6-ways-the-tech-might-harm-humans-1.6461714
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
There are six key dangers AI may pose to humans, according to Hinton:
1. bias and discrimination
2. battle robots
3. joblessness
4. echo chambers
5. existential risk
6. fake news
Hinton said he has no idea how to make AI more likely to be a force for good than for bad.
...
#GeoffHinton #AI #ML #ExistentialRisks #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #GPT #GPT3 #GPT4 #ChatGPT #AIrisk
Addendae 1 cont'd 2/2
* Yoshua Bengio is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London & Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, & Officer of the Order of Canada.
* concerned about social impact of AI & objective that AI benefits all, he actively contributed to Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.
Yoshua Bengio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio
#YoshuaBengio #AI #AIrisk #CatastrophicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #ExistentialRisks #EmergingTechnologies
Addendae 1 cont'd 1/2
* Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, & the Founder & Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute
* he co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow & acts as Scientific Director of IVADO
* 2019: awarded the prestigious Killam Prize & in 2022 became the computer scientist w. the highest h-index in the world
#YoshuaBengio #AI #AIrisk #CatastrophicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #ExistentialRisks #EmergingTechnologies
cont'd
* extremely well-written, article is approachable to non-technical persons (if lost, focus on the generalizations of relevance and risks, which are also well-written)
* ~30 min to carefully read
* issues discussed are topical, & emerging technologies discussed will *profoundly* shape all our lives, now/future.
Yoshua Bengio: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio
#Bengio #algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #ExistentialRisks
#SundayMorningRead
[thread] Yoshua Bengio, algorithms, risk
[2023-05-22] How Rogue AIs may Arise
https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise
https://web.archive.org/web/20230523031438/https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36042126
* AI/ML pioneer Yoshua Bengio discusses large language models (ChatGPT ...) & emerging technologies (artificial general intelligence, ...)
* too long to properly summarize: recommended to ALL persons, regardless of background/interests
#Bengio #algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #ExistentialRisks
🐙 Let’s talk about extinction https://www.exponentialview.co/p/lets-talk-about-extinction-ai (excellent points) #AI #ExistentialRisks (experts in AI aren’t experts in societal forecasting)
Large Language Models, Super Human Intelligence and the Methodological Hallucinations of Modern AI: https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialminds/p/large-language-models-super-human?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#ai #llms #existentialrisks #aiethics #largelanguagemodels #chatgpt #gpt4 #superintelligence #artificialintelligence
Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178943163/ai-risk-extinction-chatgpt
Past the click-bait titles (here/elsewhere):
* Corporations are jockeying for position in a likely $mutli-trillion industry - blocking competition including open-source models
* The current risks include photoreal deep fakes; disinformation; loss of jobs / work for humans in many domains
... continued in (pael1i) ...
#ML #NLP #LLM #OpenAI #existentialRisks #artificialIntelligence #persagen #GPT4 #GPT3 #ChatGPT #AGI
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
With the bit at the end of the article - I don't think corporations as they're currently structured *can* moderate themselves or safeguard the common good. But overall I found it an interesting read.
