Die existenzielle Bedrohung der Menschheit durch KI unter die Lupe genommen

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>They also put fear of unemployment into many people who have previously avoided the threat of automation – journalists included.

>However, the legitimate question remains: does AI pose an existential threat? After over half a century of false alarms, are we finally going to be under the thumb of a modern day Colossus or Hal 9000? Are we going to be plugged into the Matrix?

>According to researchers from the University of Bath and the Technical University of Darmstadt, the answer is no.

>In a [study](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) published as part of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://2024.aclweb.org/) (ACL 2024), AIs, and specifically LLMs, are, in their words, inherently controllable, predictable and safe.

>”The prevailing narrative that this type of AI is a threat to humanity prevents the widespread adoption and development of these technologies, and also diverts attention from the genuine issues that require our focus,” said Dr. Harish Tayyar Madabushi, computer scientist at the University of Bath.

>”The fear has been that as models get bigger and bigger, they will be able to solve new problems that we cannot currently predict, which poses the threat that these larger models might acquire hazardous abilities including reasoning and planning,” added Dr. Tayyar Madabushi. “This has triggered a lot of discussion – for instance, at the AI Safety Summit last year at Bletchley Park, for which we were asked for comment – but our study shows that the fear that a model will go away and do something completely unexpected, innovative and potentially dangerous is not valid.