Artificial intelligence will destroy all jobs and people will only work to find “meaning in life” rather than make a living, Elon Musk told Rishi Sunak tonight.
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His comments came after the tech giants agreed at the summit not to bring more powerful artificial intelligence models to market until their safety has been verified by governments.
Mr Sunak has repeatedly praised Mr Musk, calling him a “brilliant innovator and technologist” and saying his review of X’s content moderation rules was an “interesting change”.
In response, the tech tycoon backed Mr Sunak’s AI ambitions, saying “the two leading areas for AI development at the moment are the San Francisco Bay Area and the London area” and stressed that the Prime Minister was right to call for them to invite people to the security summit because “if they are not participants, it is pointless.”
Musk predicted that AI would prove to be “the most disruptive force in history,” not least because it would eventually make any kind of paid work obsolete.
He said, “There comes a time when work is no longer needed.” You can have a job if you want to have a job, for personal satisfaction, but AI can do anything… find meaning in life.”
Stressing that overall social change was likely to be positive, he predicted an “era of abundance” in which governments could provide citizens with “universally high incomes” and said people could have artificial intelligence “friends” to help them know better. than they know themselves.
And he warned that advances in AI have made it much easier to carry out bot attacks online: “This is a growing problem, but it could become an insurmountable problem next year.”
Musk also warned that AI will lead to the creation of humanoid robots that can follow people “everywhere” and become dangerous.
He stresses the need to shut down the humanoid versions, adding: “That’s something we have to be very concerned about.” If a robot can follow you around, what if one day it gets a software update and nothing is so friendly anymore?
Mr Musk has become an increasingly controversial figure since he bought Twitter last year, renamed it “X” and overhauled its security policies. He has developed close relationships with right-wing influencers and regularly flirts with conspiracy theories online.
The government’s artificial intelligence minister, Lord Camrose, said he and his colleagues did not use the Bletchley Park summit to confront Musk and urge him to tighten standards for X.
He said: “Neither I nor any member of the UK government I know have spoken to Musk. Outside of the Internet Safety Act, we have no authority to dictate what legal material should be published on the platform… The internal decisions of individual companies are not our concern.”
Leading companies signed a voluntary agreement at the UK’s AI Safety Summit that will not lead to mandatory rules, but Rishi Sunak warned that formal rules will soon be needed to ensure companies cannot “do their homework”.
The two-day summit at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire ended with an agreement to create a new international group of experts from all countries to produce a report summarizing the latest scientific knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence.
Concluding the event, the Prime Minister said: “While this was just the beginning of the conversation, I believe the outcome of this summit will tip the scales in favor of humanity as it shows that we have both the political will and the ability to do what we can. so… “master this technology and ensure its long-term benefits.”
He said summit participants agreed that new AI models should not be released to the public until they have been tested by government agencies such as the new AI Safety Institute in the United Kingdom, which has signed a partnership agreement with its partners. in the USA and Singapore.
This suggests that future breakthroughs like ChatGPT will remain secret unless they are deemed safe by scientific experts.
Mr Sunak said: “So far the only people testing the safety of new AI models are the companies developing them. This needs to change. Building on the G7 Hiroshima Process and the Global AI Partnership, like-minded governments and AI companies have reached an important milestone today. We will work together to test the safety of new AI models before they are released.”
Requested I Asked whether mandatory rules would be needed in the future, the Prime Minister said: “The lesson is that we have to act quickly, and we are doing that.” Continue in the same spirit.
“Before you start dictating things and legislating, I think: a) that it takes time and we need to act faster, and that is true, but secondly, you must know exactly why you are legislating, and that is why our the security department is so important.
“For now we have the cooperation we need, but of course I think everyone recognizes that at some point there will probably be a need for mandatory requirements, but it is important that we implement them correctly, and “It must” “so” based on the empirical data we obtain from our testing.” He added: “We can’t expect companies to do their own homework.”
He also tried to downplay the threat of mass unemployment due to AI displacing existing jobs, saying: “I know people are afraid of that.” AI is a tool that can help almost anyone do their job better, faster, faster, and that’s why we’re already seeing it being used.”
The British government used the end of the summit to launch its Institute for AI Security, which will be led by leading investor Ian Hogarth, who earlier this year warned of the risks of humanity being destroyed by “God AI”.
Some groups criticized the Bletchley Park summit for focusing primarily on the relatively small risks of catastrophic consequences of AI, rather than on the day-to-day impact the technology is already having.
Source: I News
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