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Aug 21, 2024

AI Doesn’t Actually Pose an Existential Threat to Humans, Study Finds

Posted by in categories: existential risks, robotics/AI

Science fiction is riddled with artificial intelligence going rogue and turning on their human creators. HAL-9000. The Matrix. Skynet. GLaDOS. Cylons. Humanity, it seems, has a deep fear of the rebellion of the machine.

With the rise of ever more sophisticated large language models (LLMs), such as Chat GPT, the question of what dangers AI may pose has become even more pertinent.

And now, we have some good news. According to a new study led by computer scientists Iryna Gurevych of the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and Harish Tayyar Madabushi of the University of Bath in the UK, these models are not capable of going rogue.

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