by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:
AI alarm bells are ringing. What should we do?
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
A series of Wall Street Journal articles highlights growing concerned over how fast AI is progressing.
Let’s start with Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
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Jacob Coxon, a researcher who specializes in training new AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company because he doesn’t want to participate in an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral out of control and destroy humanity.
“We’re on track for a lot of the most aggressive of these scenarios where by the end of next year things could be out of control already,” Coxon said, adding that safety trade-offs are inevitable when companies are competing against one another and Chinese upstarts.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday responded to Coxon on X, saying that it is time to “sound the alarm” on reining in AI.
“It’s becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity, so I’m calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington,” the Democrat and 2028 presidential contender wrote on X.
“This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence,” Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, wrote in a Sunday blog post advocating for a coordinated industry slowdown and government intervention.
The Seven Millennium Prize Problems
The Clay Mathematical institute named seven specific challenges in 2000 as the deepest unsolved questions in modern mathematics.
Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré Conjecture problem between 2002 and 2003, though he declined the monetary prize in 2010
