Unless we pursue AI carefully, the Nobel committee will one day give a Peace Prize to the people cleaning up its terrible consequences, just as it did with nuclear physics
A man wheels his bicycle thorough Hiroshima, Japan, days after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb blast. The view here is looking west-northwest, about 550 feet from where the bomb landed on August 6, 1945., one not lost on me, a mathematician studying how deep learning works. In the first half of the 20th century, the Nobel Committees awarded prizes in physics and chemistry for discoveries that uncovered the structure of atoms.
About 80 years ago hundreds of the world’s top scientists joined the Manhattan Project in a race to build an atomic weapon before the Nazis did. Yet after the German bomb effort stopped in 1944 and even after Germany surrendered the next year, the work in Los Alamos continued without pause.: “You get yourself involved in a certain way and forget that you are a human being. It becomes an addiction and you just go on for the sake of producing a gadget, without thinking about the consequences.
I first began to see parallels between nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence while working at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where the haunting closing scene ofwas set. Having made some progress in understanding the mathematical innards of artificial neural networks, I was also beginning to have concerns about the eventual social implications of my work. On a colleague’s suggestion I went to talk to the then director of the institute, physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf.
Now, as then, there are thoughtful, grounded individuals who stand out in the development of AI. Taking a stance evocative of Rotblat,resigned last year from his position leading the music generation team at Stability AI, over the company’s insistence on creating generative AI models trained on copyrighted data without paying for that use.
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