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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A leading AI expert and Google Brain cofounder said Big Tech companies were stoking fears about the technology's risks to shut down competition.

Google Brain was a deep-learning AI research team that merged with the DeepMind division earlier this year.

Andrew Ng, an adjunct professor at Stanford University who taught OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, told The Australian Financial Review that the biggest tech companies hoped to trigger strict regulation with the "bad idea that AI could make us go extinct."

"There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source, so they're creating fear of AI leading to human extinction," he told the news outlet.

Governments around the world are looking to regulate AI, citing concerns over safety, potential job losses, and even the risk of human extinction.

Ng did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly the AI safety concerns of alignment I feel are exasperated by corporations, which we already don't have good ways to keep aligned to the interests of the general public.