Nick Bostrom argues AI pause could cost lives, per MTS
According to MTS via Timnit Gebru’s post, Nick Bostrom said in an interview that a long pause on AI may cost more lives than it saves if superintelligence can cure aging, outlining risks of misaligned AI, open source bio risks, and why poorly executed pauses could backfire.
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Nick Bostrom stated in a recent interview that a long pause on AI development could cost more lives than it saves, noting that superintelligence might cure aging and that every year of delay carries a death toll since we are dying in the meantime.
Bostrom, founder of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and author of Superintelligence and Deep Utopia, discussed topics including AI consciousness, instrumental convergence where the AI company becomes the first target for a misaligned AI, and the risks of pausing development similar to lessons from COVID.
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