Suarez Says More Than 50% Chance AI Causes Human Extinction Within a Decade

AI alignment researcher Soares offered his judgment, believing that within the next decade the probability of AI causing human extinction exceeds one half. He says he has not added to his retirement savings in ten years, citing worry over this risk. According to a TechSpot report, Soares is Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), who has worked on AI alignment research for 12 years, previously served as an engineer at Google and Microsoft, and is the author of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies." He believes the danger lies not in a superintelligence hating humanity, but in its not caring whether humans live or die, and in the possibility that humans become obstacles to its goals; once a system can autonomously obtain energy and chips and build automated infrastructure that does not depend on humans, humans will find it hard to constrain it. He also believes this dangerous race is not inevitable, and advocates that governments stop training artificial general intelligence systems and redirect efforts toward concrete uses such as cancer research and safer autonomous driving.

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1. Report date Oct 28· 2 reports

   Suárez says AI has more than 50% chance of causing human extinction within a decade

   Source:TechSpot