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Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone
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Not all employees of major firms working on artificial intelligence (AI) think the technology spells doom for humanity.
Key facts
- But even Hugging Face, a company of 200 employees which is now set to be acquired by Nvidia for almost $13bn, has taken a droll tone over the already infamous incident
- Rishub Jain, who this summer founded the AI safety research firm Sampura Research after spending seven years at DeepMind, told the BBC that the current tone among many people working in AI
- More than 100 people working in AI on Friday signed a letter, external supporting the move, insisting that outside evaluators needed to be "meaningfully independent
- There is even growing agreement that evaluators from AI safety research organisations should be brought into major AI labs to evaluate new models, something Anthropic boss Dario Amodei and OpenAI
Summary
In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for companies including OpenAI, Meta and DeepMind were sceptical of the idea that unchecked AI development would lead to tools that could kill people en masse. "Lol", "Haaaaaa" and "Bringing the luls" were among the reactions the BBC received to a recent flurry of high-profile warnings by some people in the industry. While these fears go back decades, claims made last week by Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee, went viral and were echoed by others in the sector who urged a slowdown in development. The idea that a future AI tool or agent, an AI bot that is programmed to operate somewhat autonomously, could endanger people has been supported online by employees of Anthropic, as well as OpenAI, Deepmind and Elon Musk, who has an AI startup called xAI.