The Alan Turing Institute has published a report arguing that uncertainty about future existential threats posed by AI should not delay action on immediate risk. The warning comes as international debate over how to safeguard the technology intensifies at the United Nations General Assembly.
In the past few weeks, there have been calls from within the AI industry about the pace the technology is developing at and the threats this poses.
It follows incendiary comments from a safety researcher at Anthropic, developer of AI chatbot Claude, who said that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI “could kill all humans” within the next decade.
The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI, has published a report – Frontier AI Risks: A practical way forward – calling on the government to act on AI immediately.
The report argues that humanity possesses the agency to mitigate AI threats today and should do so rather than leaving the debate entirely to technology...