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Key facts
- Trager, the director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, was speaking in the week OpenAI claimed the technology had crossed the threshold known as AGI, artificial general intelligence
- That claim came as the company prepared for a potential $850bn (£630bn) stock flotation, so included a dose of marketing spin, but if true it may be significant
- And next week a bill will be proposed by the Labour MP Alex Sobel to prohibit superintelligent AI development in the UK
- Ryan Greenblatt, the chief scientist at Redwood Research, a nonprofit examining AI safety and security, called it “extremely concerning
Summary
P icture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no Niagara Falls ahead. These were two of the analogies used this week by Prof Robert Trager, an expert in the nascent field of AI governance, to describe the perilous but potential-filled moment the world stands at with accelerating artificial intelligence. Trager, the director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, was speaking in the week OpenAI claimed the technology had crossed the threshold known as AGI, artificial general intelligence, with its newest model, GPT-6 Astra. That claim came as the company prepared for a potential $850bn (£630bn) stock flotation, so included a dose of marketing spin, but if true it may be significant. The tasks it claims Astra can automate include designing circuit boards, filling out tax returns, building video games, financial modelling, engineering design and helping assemble legal documents.