On Saturday, Donald Trump said, “We’re leading China on AI… and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” But the danger the world is waking up to is that this is a game both the US and China could lose, potentially fatally, with AI itself emerging as the winner.
Last week, Evan Hubinger, a researcher at Anthropic, warned that he believed there was a greater than 10% chance that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. Shortly afterwards, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, backed Hubinger, calling for progress on artificial intelligence models to be slowed down in response to the threat.
