As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to create policies aimed at stopping me. The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday.
“We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council during his appearance, according to the Associated Press.
“We are at a crossroads,” Altman said, according to a transcript on the OpenAI website. “One path leads to a world where power is concentrated, decisions are opaque, and people feel that the most important technology of their lifetime is something being done to them.”
Altman even got into specific policy suggestions: “accurate and speedy incident reporting, classification and reporting protocols,” and “secure channels among governments, critical infrastructure operators, and technical experts to share emerging vulnerabilities and new threats.”
Amodei, who has a longstanding reputation as an AI doomer—even as he has amassed a fortune estimated at $15 billion thanks to the technology—was even blunter than Altman, saying “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” per the AP. “For all the differences of the people in this room, we must put aside those differences in order to confront this global opportunity and global threat that is being presented to us at the same time.
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