PauseAI Monthly Action Meeting

Description

Meeting is on the lowest, sub-grade level of 875 3rd Av, connected to the eastern enterance of the E/M train by the Starbucks and Dunkin.

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AI presents numerous risks to humanity. Meanwhile, progress in AI capabilities is accelerating at a frantic pace and humanity is not prepared for the consequences. AI companies are encouraging each other in a race to develop superhuman intelligence, where safety is actively sacrificed for monetary gain. We must force our governments to step in and prevent AI from reaching superhuman levels before we know how to make it safely. This pause needs to happen on an international level, including with current US adversaries.

Present dangers

• Fake news, polarization and a loss of trust in information (1)
• Deepfakes and impersonation (1)
• Scalable, untraceable bias and discrimination against many threatened groups (1)
• Mental health, enhanced addiction and disconnection between people (1)
• Lethal autonomous weapons (1, 2)
• Empowerment of terrorist groups (1)

Near-Future Dangers

• Massive job loss and human unemployability (1, 2)
• Biological weapons and novel pandemics (1, 2)
• Mind-reading and extraction of secrets (1, 2)
• Breaking cybersecurity that runs the internet (1, 2, 3)
• Total human annihilation (CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman, Lead Investor at Anthropic, Bill Gates, Godfather of AI Geoffery Hinton, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and many others)