Führende chinesische und westliche KI-Wissenschaftler geben eine gemeinsame Erklärung ab: Die existenzielle Bedrohung durch KI erfordert eine ähnliche Zusammenarbeit wie im Kalten Krieg, um einen Atomkrieg zu verhindern

“In the depths of the cold war, international scientific and governmental co-ordination helped avert thermonuclear catastrophe. Humanity again needs to co-ordinate to avert a catastrophe that could arise from unprecedented technology,” the statement said.

Signatories include Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who won a Turing Award for their work on neural networks and are often described as “godfathers” of AI; Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley; and Andrew Yao, one of China’s most prominent computer scientists.

In Beijing last week, experts discussed threats regarding the development of “artificial general intelligence”, or AI systems that are equal to or superior to humans.

“A core focus of the discussion were the red lines that no powerful AI system should cross and that governments around the world should impose in the development and deployment of AI,” said Bengio.

These red lines relate to increasingly autonomous systems, with the statement saying that “no AI system should be able to copy or improve itself without explicit human approval and assistance” or “take actions to unduly increase its power and influence”.

The scientists added that no systems should “substantially increase the ability of actors to design weapons of mass destruction, violate the biological or chemical weapons convention” or be able to “autonomously execute cyber attacks resulting in serious financial losses or equivalent harm”.

Nobody ever says how the computer program is going to kill us all. Is there an article somewhere that gives a realistic non-crazy explanation about how artificial intelligence might start killing lots of people?