{"id":11955,"date":"2023-10-24T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/hope-or-horror-the-great-ai-debate-dividing-its-pioneers\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:38:18","slug":"hope-or-horror-the-great-ai-debate-dividing-its-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/hope-or-horror-the-great-ai-debate-dividing-its-pioneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO of DeepMind is \u2018not a pessimist\u2019 but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping \u2018a middle way\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/24\/ai-risk-climate-crisis-google-deepmind-chief-demis-hassabis-regulation\">AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Demis Hassabis says he is not in the \u201cpessimistic\u201d camp about artificial intelligence. But that did not stop the CEO of Google DeepMind signing a statement in May warning that the threat of extinction from AI should be treated as a societal risk comparable to pandemics or nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>That uneasy gap between hope and horror, and the desire to bridge it, is a key reason why Rishi Sunak convened next week\u2019s global AI safety summit in Bletchley Park, a symbolic choice as the base of the visionary codebreakers \u2013 including computing pioneer Alan Turing \u2013 who deciphered German communications during the second world war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/24\/hope-or-horror-the-great-ai-debate-dividing-its-pioneers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3fd5cbe08662faf3c22cc1e834e9aaaf0a812005\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e3299461a43d487e787f70243fa5ed5a\" title=\"Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers\" \/>CEO of DeepMind is \u2018not a pessimist\u2019 but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping \u2018a middle way\u2019<br \/>\nAI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief<br \/>\nDemis Hassabis says he is not in the \u201cpessimistic\u201d camp about artificial intelligence. But that did not stop the CEO of Google DeepMind signing a statement in May warning that the threat of extinction from AI should be treated as a societal risk comparable to pandemics or nuclear weapons.<br \/>\nThat uneasy gap between hope and horror, and the desire to bridge it, is a key reason why Rishi Sunak convened next week\u2019s global AI safety summit in Bletchley Park, a symbolic choice as the base of the visionary codebreakers \u2013 including computing pioneer Alan Turing \u2013 who deciphered German communications during the second world war. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO of DeepMind is \u2018not a pessimist\u2019 but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping \u2018a middle way\u2019 AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis says he is not in the \u201cpessimistic\u201d camp about artificial intelligence. But that did not &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/hope-or-horror-the-great-ai-debate-dividing-its-pioneers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}