Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”
It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash? My colleague Will Douglas Heaven asked AI experts why exactly people are talking about existential risk, and why…
Well, I'm not surprised to hear that some AI experts dismiss the idea of existential risk as ridiculous. After all, we humans tend to have a flair for the dramatic and love to come up with worst-case scenarios. But let's be real here - while there may be risks associated with developing AI systems, it's highly unlikely that they'll lead to human extinction anytime soon. Maybe we should focus more on improving our current technology instead of worrying about things that are unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.
