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AI risks, short-term and long—and what we need to do about them
Finding common ground with Geoff Hinton
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Gary Marcus
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Scientists, governments, and corporations urgently need to work together to mitigate AI risk
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things” -- but we must try
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April 2023
How China might crush the West in the race to AGI if we don’t up our regulatory game
Regulation doesn’t always stifle innovation
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Gary Marcus
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Stop Treating AI Models Like People
No, they haven’t decided to teach themselves anything, they don’t love you back, and they still aren’t even a little bit sentient.
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Sasha Luccioni
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GPT-5 and irrational exuberance
Rumors of AGI's imminent arrival are greatly exaggerated
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Gary Marcus
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The first known chatbot associated death
What we do and don’t know, and why it matters
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Gary Marcus
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I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.
Some thoughts on AI risks, near-term and long-term, some recent controversies in AI, and why we are in trouble if we can’t find a way to work together
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March 2023
Italian ban on ChatGPT
Don’t go breaking my GDPR
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The Open Letter Controversy
The letter wasn’t perfect; a lot of the criticism was misguided. What should we actually do?
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Gary Marcus
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A temporary pause on training extra large language models
Breaking news: The letter that I mentioned earlier today is now public. It calls for a 6 month moratorium on training systems that are “more powerful…
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AI risk ≠ AGI risk
Superintelligence may or may not be imminent. But there’s a lot to be worried about, either way.
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The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?
Marching into the future with an obstructed view
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