The Center for AI Safety released a statement signed by more than 350 of AI’s leading executives and researchers warning that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. The statement was released in response to the failure of NEDA’s AI chatbot “Tessa” which provided harmful advice. The statement was cosigned by AI pioneers such as Geoffrey Hinton, the recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, and the CEOs of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, respectively.
