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A report commissioned by the US State Department is warning that rapidly evolving AI could pose a "catastrophic" risk to national security and even all of humanity., advised that the US government must move "quickly and decisively" — with measures including potentially limiting the compute power allocated to training these AIs — or else risk an "extinction-level threat to the human species.
The 247-page State Department report, commissioned in late 2022, involved speaking with more than 200 experts, including employees of companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google DeepMind, and government workers. These recommendations are meant to address the risk of having an AI lab "lose control" of its AI systems, which could have "potentially devastating consequences to global security."
But whether governments will heed these warnings remains to be seen. The news comes the same week as the Europen Union passing thein the US. Are the authors' concerns warranted — or are these overblown claims, with recommendations that amount to government overreach and stifle innovation?
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