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Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race
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Key facts
- Russell signed an open letter in March 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research
- The same dynamic is already playing out at a national level: Senator Bernie Sanders’ push for a law imposing a moratorium on data center construction echoes AI fears enunciated by Elon Musk, Sam
- That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business
- Today, they called the only expert witness to speak directly to AI technology: Stuart Russell, a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor who has studied AI for decades
Summary
That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. Today, they called the only expert witness to speak directly to AI technology: Stuart Russell, a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor who has studied AI for decades. Russell signed an open letter in March 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. Russell told jurors and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers that there were a variety of risks associated with the development of AI, ranging from cybersecurity threats to problems with misalignment and the winner-take-all nature of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). Russell’s larger concerns about the existential threats of unconstrained AI didn’t get aired in open court after objections from OpenAI’s attorneys led the judge to limit Russell’s testimony.