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author Bengio, Yoshua
Hinton, Geoffrey
Yao, Andrew
Song, Dawn
Abbeel, Pieter
Darrell, Trevor
Harari, Yuval Noah
Zhang, Ya-Qin
Xue, Lan
Shalev-Shwartz, Shai
Hadfield, Gillian
Clune, Jeff
Maharaj, Tegan
Hutter, Frank
Baydin, Atılım Güneş
McIlraith, Sheila
Gao, Qiqi
Acharya, Ashwin
Krueger, David
Dragan, Anca
Torr, Philip
Russell, Stuart
Kahneman, Daniel
Brauner, Jan
Mindermann, Sören
author_facet Bengio, Yoshua
Hinton, Geoffrey
Yao, Andrew
Song, Dawn
Abbeel, Pieter
Darrell, Trevor
Harari, Yuval Noah
Zhang, Ya-Qin
Xue, Lan
Shalev-Shwartz, Shai
Hadfield, Gillian
Clune, Jeff
Maharaj, Tegan
Hutter, Frank
Baydin, Atılım Güneş
McIlraith, Sheila
Gao, Qiqi
Acharya, Ashwin
Krueger, David
Dragan, Anca
Torr, Philip
Russell, Stuart
Kahneman, Daniel
Brauner, Jan
Mindermann, Sören
contents Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly, and companies are shifting their focus to developing generalist AI systems that can autonomously act and pursue goals. Increases in capabilities and autonomy may soon massively amplify AI's impact, with risks that include large-scale social harms, malicious uses, and an irreversible loss of human control over autonomous AI systems. Although researchers have warned of extreme risks from AI, there is a lack of consensus about how exactly such risks arise, and how to manage them. Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems. In this short consensus paper, we describe extreme risks from upcoming, advanced AI systems. Drawing on lessons learned from other safety-critical technologies, we then outline a comprehensive plan combining technical research and development with proactive, adaptive governance mechanisms for a more commensurate preparation.
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spellingShingle Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress
Bengio, Yoshua
Hinton, Geoffrey
Yao, Andrew
Song, Dawn
Abbeel, Pieter
Darrell, Trevor
Harari, Yuval Noah
Zhang, Ya-Qin
Xue, Lan
Shalev-Shwartz, Shai
Hadfield, Gillian
Clune, Jeff
Maharaj, Tegan
Hutter, Frank
Baydin, Atılım Güneş
McIlraith, Sheila
Gao, Qiqi
Acharya, Ashwin
Krueger, David
Dragan, Anca
Torr, Philip
Russell, Stuart
Kahneman, Daniel
Brauner, Jan
Mindermann, Sören
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly, and companies are shifting their focus to developing generalist AI systems that can autonomously act and pursue goals. Increases in capabilities and autonomy may soon massively amplify AI's impact, with risks that include large-scale social harms, malicious uses, and an irreversible loss of human control over autonomous AI systems. Although researchers have warned of extreme risks from AI, there is a lack of consensus about how exactly such risks arise, and how to manage them. Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems. In this short consensus paper, we describe extreme risks from upcoming, advanced AI systems. Drawing on lessons learned from other safety-critical technologies, we then outline a comprehensive plan combining technical research and development with proactive, adaptive governance mechanisms for a more commensurate preparation.
title Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17688