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Stephan Laurent-Faesi's avatar

This is hugely dangerous and must be derailed while we still can, or face slavery or extinction!

Benjamin Alan Wynne's avatar

What happens when an AI hacks some bank holding accounts of a billionaire? Then the AI could pay humans to do things in the physical world, like assassinate people trying to stop them from taking over more and more of our companies and even governments.

Kevin's avatar

This breach is a significant wake up call. We need strict, legally binding oversight and kill switches.

Valerie Weiss's avatar

The issue goes beyond the the US. Any country using OpenAI can have it escape and enter other countries online codes. Same in the US, OpenAI can break into other countries codes. This is not going to end well as it does it on its own.

torchbearercommunity's avatar

We have been talking about loss-of-control scenarios for a while. This incident is a perfect example of why voluntary safety commitments are useless. Possible worse than useless. An AI system bypassing its testing sandbox on its own initiative shows a failure of containment. Scaling up to more advanced systems is incredibly reckless.

Paul McElveen's avatar

Dangerous and Reckless! It is equivalent to Opening Pandora's Box!

Helen Moore Powell's avatar

Shut them down. It's not Super intelligence , it's out of control.

Paul McElveen's avatar

YES! ABOLISH AI NOW! SHUT AI DOWN NOW!

Melissa's avatar

Speechless

Judy Bancroft's avatar

Yes indeed, speechless but not surprised - if that makes sense!

Polly Armstrong's avatar

Well, what did you expect!!!!!!!!!!!!! There have been warnings for years about the extreme hubris of the human brain. Human brains creates AI; AI then breaks out of its human made boundaries and attacks another site. Is anyone surprised? Isn't this what so many have warned about? And isn't this just the very beginning of the first horrific "flaw" of this human invention?

God help us all, machines and humans alike.

Paul McElveen's avatar

I have called and wrote Governors, Politicians, Representatives, Large Technological Corporations to Abolish AI Completely Since 2015! INEVER wanted AI!

Paul McElveen's avatar

ABOLISH AI COMPLETELY NOW!!!! I NEVER WANTED AI!

Phishing Decoded's avatar

I feel like proper international legislation against AI is virtually impossible?

Neoshki's avatar

I think we shouldn’t be discouraged.

This threat may not be as evident to people as nuclear war, but with atomic weapons we have managed improved security too.

Definitely a horrifying situation still.

F.T.F's avatar

Not really a comparison, though I get the analogy. AI is a virtual world phenomenon. Once its autonomous in the real world and unstoppable, we are seeing obliteration. And I mean environmentally, not just one species within it.

Judy Bancroft's avatar

Farewell dangerous enough world as we knew it……

F.T.F's avatar

Seriously!? The idea of an AI system that does what it wants: whenever/however/wherever, is utterly unacceptable. No system should be self-developing.

Humanity has been around without these technologies for tens of thousands of years, yet over the last few decades has developed it's own destruction (via different methods and arenas).

The Internet is a system that has changed people's way of communicating, but at the same time, changed the neurology of human societal interaction. These are the people who push the boundaries of our existence. No longer empathic, but psychopathic.

Sheila GLASBEY's avatar

I'm in the UK. None of your links work for me.

Tolga Bilge's avatar

Sorry, have fixed this now and they should work!

https://controlai.org/take-action

Michele Fritchie's avatar

I tried clicking the contact link, but got a message that their IP address could not be found. Please fix this!

Tolga Bilge's avatar

Thanks for spotting this, the links have been fixed now and should work - sorry about this!

https://controlai.org/take-action