{"id":12021,"date":"2023-10-29T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T07:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert\/"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T07:37:56","slug":"ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading researcher, who will attend this week\u2019s AI safety summit in London, warns of \u2018real threat to the public conversation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week\u2019s AI safety summit.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Gomez, co-author of a research paper that helped create the technology behind chatbots, said long-term risks such as existential threats to humanity from AI should be \u201cstudied and pursued\u201d, but that they could divert politicians from dealing with immediate potential harms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/29\/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2d0e29e925fe6df57f6c27f9a5ef37f3696f8b59\/0_194_4595_2757\/master\/4595.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ceec8f3b100f2e315f1f41ace906ec7\" title=\"AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert\" \/>A leading researcher, who will attend this week\u2019s AI safety summit in London, warns of \u2018real threat to the public conversation\u2019<br \/>\nFocusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week\u2019s AI safety summit.<br \/>\nAidan Gomez, co-author of a research paper that helped create the technology behind chatbots, said long-term risks such as existential threats to humanity from AI should be \u201cstudied and pursued\u201d, but that they could divert politicians from dealing with immediate potential harms. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading researcher, who will attend this week\u2019s AI safety summit in London, warns of \u2018real threat to the public conversation\u2019 Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week\u2019s AI safety summit. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12022,"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\/12021"}],"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=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}