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Still, everyone seems to agree some sorts of rules and oversight need to be established and quickly
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Over the past week, fears of AI wiping out humanity are surging.
Key facts
- DETROW: So today, the reporter saw two unlikely figures in the same room
- Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, and pro-Trump firebrand Steve Bannon
- Malo Bourgon is CEO of a company called The Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, talked about the speed with which AI systems are evolving, and in particular, the fact that AI is now helping to train better AI
- Joining me to help unpack the fears, both existential and otherwise, is NPR's Geoff Brumfiel
Summary
They call it, quote, "The Pro-Human Assembly" - a gathering held today in Washington where politicians, celebrities and religious leaders discussed what to do about artificial intelligence. GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: Hi, Scott. Bannon and Sanders both talked about the possibility of AI going rogue. You know, the reporter thinks a lot of this started earlier in the summer when another AI company called Hugging Face got hacked, and that hack came from the OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. And as they tried to figure out how to do it, they decided to attempt to steal the answer key from Hugging Face. Malo Bourgon is CEO of a company called The Machine Intelligence Research Institute.