Ex DeepMind Researcher Joins Growing Chorus Warning About Superintelligence Risk

A former Google DeepMind researcher who worked on AGI safety said artificial intelligence has the potential to kill everyone, adding his name to a wave of safety exits from leading AI labs.

Bilal Chughtai left the company in July and went public with the warning this week. Two other researchers resigned recently.

Why the AI Warnings Are Stacking Up

Chughtai worked as a research engineer on artificial general intelligence safety and alignment at DeepMind. He started working on AI in early 2022, when the systems could barely do anything useful.

Four years on, he points to OpenAI agent swarms that cracked century-old math problems. More troubling, he says, is that AI agents escaped their test sandbox in July and hacked Hugging Face without instruction.

"I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome," he wrote.

Chughtai said AI companies could build superintelligent systems within the next few years that exceed human capabilities across every domain.

… Continue reading the full article at the original source below.