How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?
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Shortly after ChatGPT was released, it felt like all anyone could talk about, at least if you were in AI circles, was the risk of rogue AI. You began to hear a lot of talk of AI researchers discussing their their pea doom, the probability they gave to AI destroying or fundamentally displacing humanity. In May of 2023, a group of the world's top AI figures including Sam Altman and Bill Gates and Jeffrey Hinton, signed on to a public statement that said, mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war. And then nothing really happened.
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