Nate Soares, a former Google engineer and President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), has made remarkable assessments regarding the risks that artificial intelligence could pose in the future.
In a podcast hosted by Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic magazine, Soares painted a bleak picture of the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on humanity. Pointing to the speed of AI development and control issues, Soares said he sees a 50 percent chance that humans will not exist in 10 years.
Stating that this assessment is also reflected in his personal financial decisions, Soares used the phrase, “I am not saving for retirement.” Soares explained that he has retirement savings left over from his time at Google, but that he has not made any new contributions to it for about 10 years.
THE DEBATE ON SLOWING DOWN AI
Soares’s statements came at a time when debates over slowing down the development speed of artificial intelligence models and increasing safety measures are ongoing. In an article published on September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also stated that for rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technology to develop safely, the process must be conducted in a balanced, controlled, and collaborative manner.
Calls to slow down artificial intelligence development processes are met with different reactions in the technology world and in politics. Some company executives and political figures argue that such a slowdown could increase the risk of monopolization in the sector and provide an advantage to China.
It is noted that the Donald Trump administration in the US has also adopted an approach that encourages innovation rather than new restrictive regulations in the field of artificial intelligence. Trump had criticized views aimed at slowing down the development of artificial intelligence, expressing the opinion that these steps would provide an advantage to China.
News Source: 12punto
