Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.
The paper, titled “What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion”, is authored by more than 20 people including Hinton and Bengio.
In the paper it is broadly referred to as automated AI research and development.
The authors say the automating of AI R&D is the most likely source of an intelligence explosion, because AIs are already contributing to improving their own technology and the resulting improved systems can be rapidly deployed once built.
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OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’.
Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.
A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is progress in the technology.
The paper, titled “What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion”, is authored by more than 20 people including Hinton and Bengio. Other authors of the paper include Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, and Jakub Pachocki, the chief scientist at OpenAI.
Their concerns focus on the possibility of AIs being able to improve themselves without human intervention, a process known as “recursive self-improvement”. In the paper it is broadly referred to as automated AI research and development. Once AI systems reach expert-level capabilities at AI R&D, a single developer could run a workforce equivalent to “millions” of top human researchers, the paper says.
The authors say the automating of AI R&D is the most likely source of an intelligence explosion, because AIs are already contributing to improving their own technology and the resulting improved systems can be rapidly deployed once built.
Anthropic and OpenAI have both agreed to having independent evaluators assess their models after warning that AI development was reaching a pitch in terms of safety.
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