Nick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI’s “godlike power to exterminate humanity”, calling it a sign that tech executives are “breathing their own fumes”.
Asked about the autonomous hack conducted by a group of OpenAI agents on a real-world company, Hugging Face, Clegg said there was a case for “tramlines and greater transparency”.
Clegg also disagreed with other proposed remedies, such as introducing a “kill switch”, which he said would be unworkable; or only producing closed models, where source code is not made public, which he said were no safer than open source models according to the evidence.
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He said this would be unlikely to happen under a Trump administration given its competitiveness on AI.
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Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within the sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’.
Nick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI’s “godlike power to exterminate humanity”, calling it a sign that tech executives are “breathing their own fumes”.
Clegg, who was formerly the president of global affairs at Meta and owns more than 917,000 shares in Nscale, a UK-based datacentre, and is a cofounder of AI startup AMI Labs, said he spent “a huge amount of time” with people in the tech industry.
Asked about the autonomous hack conducted by a group of OpenAI agents on a real-world company, Hugging Face, Clegg said there was a case for “tramlines and greater transparency”.
He said this would be unlikely to happen under a Trump administration given its competitiveness on AI.
Asked whether the British prime minister, Andy Burnham, could take a lead on such efforts, Clegg noted the UK was not a world leader on AI: “We need to be realistic about what influence we can and cannot exert.”
Clegg also disagreed with other proposed remedies, such as introducing a “kill switch”, which he said would be unworkable; or only producing closed models, where source code is not made public, which he said were no safer than open source models according to the evidence.
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