Tech Experts Warn Humanity Must Act Now to Avoid 'Societal-Scale' Damage by AI

'It's time to get serious about advanced AI systems,' said one computer science professor. 'These are not toys. Increasing their capabilities before we understand how to make them safe is utterly reckless.'

Amid preparations for a global artificial intelligence safety summit in the United Kingdom, two dozen AI experts on Tuesday released a short paper and policy supplement urging humanity to 'address ongoing harms and anticipate emerging risks' associated with the rapidly developing technology. The experts—including Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Andrew Yao—wrote that 'AI may be the technology that shapes this century.

' The experts asserted that until sufficient regulations exist, major companies should 'lay out if-then commitments: specific safety measures they will take if specific red-line capabilities are found in their AI systems.' They are also calling on tech giants and public funders to put at least a third of their artificial intelligence research and development budgets toward 'ensuring safety and ethical use, comparable to their funding for AI capabilities.

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