Anthropic · OpenAI · Canada · The Guardian Technology
AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
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Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.
Key facts
- Anthropic says AI now produces 80% of its own code, while OpenAI uses autonomous AI agents in areas such as the training of new models
- The paper, titled “ What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion? ”, is authored by more than 20 people including Hinton and Bengio
- A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act
- Despite some glitches shown by systems, such as disobeying instructions, R&D projects that would take humans months to carry out could be fully automated by AI by 2028
Summary
A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is runaway progress in the technology. The authors say they are concerned about an “intelligence explosion”, which they describe as a “dramatic AI-driven acceleration of AI progress, compressing advances that would otherwise take years into months or less”. The paper, titled “ What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion? ”, is authored by more than 20 people including Hinton and Bengio. Their concerns focus on the possibility of AIs being able to improve themselves without human intervention, a process known as “recursive self-improvement”.