AI cures blindness, ‘good’ propaganda bots, OpenAI doomsday bunker: AI Eye
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Doomsday bunker for OpenAI’s top scientists In the last AI Eye, we reported that scientists from the four leading AI companies believe there’s at least a 10% chance of AI killing around 50% of humanity in the next decade — one scientist was buying farmland in the US Midwest so he could ride out the AI apocalypse. Ilya is heading down the bunker on AGI release day. (TheAlexK) This week, it emerged that another doomsday prepper is OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. According to Empire of AI author Karen Hao, he told key scientists in mid-2023 that “we’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI.” Artificial general intelligence is the vaguely defined idea of a sentient intelligence smarter than humans. The underground compound would protect the scientists from geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once AGI was released. “Of course,” he added, “it’s going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker.” One OpenAI researcher said there was an identifiable group of AI doomers in the company, with Ilya being one, “who believe that building AGI will bring about a rapture. Literally a rapture.” Of course, it’s not stopping them from trying to build it. ‘Bad’ persuasion vs ‘good’ persuasion A new study in Nature found ChatGPT and humans are equally persuasive at convincing other humans of their position via an argument — but when the LLM is given basic demographic information, it becomes more persuasive because it can tailor its arguments to individuals and manipulate them. Researcher Francesco Salvi raised legitimate concerns that this could lead to “armies of bots microtargeting undecided voters” and speculated that “malicious actors” may already be using bots “spread misinformation and unfair propaganda.” But in almost the next breath, he said the “potential benefits” would be the…
