“When scientists tell you there is a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you’ve got to be a moron not to say slow it down” US Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking to Faisal Islam, urges caution around the development of AI, adding: “what is the risk... of going forward if all of humanity’s existence is at stake?” #Newsnightshow more

@faisalislam #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@faisalislam No one listened about climate change so this won’t be any different

@faisalislam Yeah sort of like when he sat at the convention in 2016 literally pouting, and drove so much hate from his berniebros towards not just Hillary but women in general, which definitely helped elect donald trump ... that caution? I used to love him but now I will never forgive him!!

@faisalislam There a chance Humans can cause cataclysmic impact, has been since 1945, so you gonna stop childbirth too?

I am betting that humanity will eventually arrive at a conclusion that seems radical today but may become obvious tomorrow: The safest path forward is One AI. Not thousands of competing artificial intelligences. Not an arms race between nations, corporations and autonomous systems. Not a future where humanity creates multiple superintelligences with competing goals. One AI. A single, globally aligned intelligence whose primary objective is the preservation and advancement of humanity. It sounds like science fiction. Perhaps it is. But as AI becomes more powerful, we may discover that the greatest threat isn’t artificial intelligence itself – it’s what happens when powerful AIs compete against one another. The question isn’t whether we can build increasingly powerful AI. The question is whether we can build one that humanity can trust. That is the idea behind #OneAI. And perhaps, one day, people will look back and wonder why we ever thought having competing superintelligences was a good idea. Read my One AI proposal. #OpenAI #Anthropic #Grok #Gemini #Mistral #ChatGPT

@tombibbys @faisalislam At this point - should we switch off the web. As far as is possible. Globally coordinated governments can do this. We CAN cope. It would cause short term chaos yes. But we still have offline procedures in place.

@faisalislam @BernieSanders tell that to @GavinNewsom

@mehdirhasan @faisalislam Um, climate change?

@faisalislam Slow it down? What? When there's money to be made ? When the end comes, some people will just have bigger bank balances than others.

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