British Prime Minister's adviser warns: AI may be 'powerful enough to kill people' in two years' time

Reference News Network reported on June 6According to a report on the British "Times" website on June 5, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's artificial intelligence (AI) adviser warned that artificial intelligence The system will be powerful enough to "kill a lot of people" in just two years.

Matt Clifford, who is helping the prime minister set up the government's artificial intelligence task force, said that if humans fail to find a way to control the technology, policymakers should prepare for everything from cyberattacks to the creation of biological weapons. series of threats.

He told the talk channel: "This could be a very dangerous threat to humanity, and just looking at the models that we expect to see in two years' time, it could kill a lot of people, not all of them."

Experts warn that in the medium term, artificial intelligence could be used to design chemical and biological weapons and launch large-scale attacks on the Internet. Last week, a statement signed by 350 AI experts, including the CEO of the Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center (OpenAI), which developed the Chat Generation Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT), warned that in the long term, the technology There is a risk of human extinction.

Clifford, chairman of the Government's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, said this "sounds like the plot of a movie" but is indeed worrying - and one reason countries need to work across borders to develop rules.

He said: "I think the kind of existential risk that the author of the letter is talking about is... what could happen once we effectively create a new species that is, you know, smarter than humans." He also Say, "optimistically" we might have computers smarter than humans within two years.

However, Clifford said artificial intelligence also has the potential to become an overwhelming force — if we find ways to control it. "If all goes well... you can imagine using artificial intelligence to treat diseases, make the economy more productive, and help us achieve carbon neutrality." (Compiler/Xu Yanhong)

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