The human race may only have two years left to tame advanced artificial intelligence systems before they become too powerful to control, Rishi Sunak’s chief adviser on the technology has warned.
He has met AI experts in Downing Street and is expected to raise the issue with President Joe Biden in Washington this week.Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI which operates ChatGPT,of the sector, and has said the technology should be handled in the same way as nuclear material.
He added: “It’s certainly true that if we try and create artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than humans and we don’t know how to control it, then that’s going to create a potential for all sorts of risks now and in the future. So I think there’s lots of different scenarios to worry about but I certainly think it’s right that it should be very high on the policy makers’ agendas”.
“You can use AI today to create new recipes for bioweapons or to launch large-scale cyber attacks, you know, these are bad things. The kind of existential risk that I think the letter writers were talking about is exactly as you said, they’re talking about what happens once we effectively create a new species, you know an intelligence that is greater than humans.”
He added: “If we go back to things like the bioweapons or the cyber, you can have really very dangerous threats to humans that could kill many humans, not all humans, simply from where we’d expect models to be in two years’ time.
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