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Cutting-edge AI raises fears about risks to humanity. Are tech and political leaders doing enough?
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FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on AI at Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, Thursday Oct. 26, 2023. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will host a two-day summit focused on frontier AI. It's reportedly expected to be draw a group of about 100 officials from 28 countries, including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and executives from key U.S. artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Google's DeepMind and Anthropic. - photo by Peter Nicholls/Pool via AP, File
LONDON (AP) — Chatbots like ChatGPT wowed the world with their ability to write speeches, plan vacations or hold a conversation as good as or arguably even better than humans do, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. Now, frontier AI has become the latest buzzword as concerns grow that the emerging technology has capabilities that could endanger humanity. Everyone from the British government to top researchers and even major AI companies themselves are raising the alarm about frontier AI’s as-yet-unknown dangers and calling for safeguards to protect people from its existential threats.