Keep pulling the thread on Sam Altman.
The "We Must Act Now" statement warns that AI could drive an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution on a vastly shorter timeline.
The "We Must Act Now" statement posits that AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.
Alex Imas of Google DeepMind noted that the unemployment rate for people aged 20-24 has remained effectively unchanged since the AI boom began, surprising many who predicted large job losses.
Sam Altman believes that AI has been a net job creator so far, which was contrary to his expectations.
Demis Hassabis believes AGI is more akin to the discovery of electricity or fire than to breakthroughs like the internet or mobile technology.
Demis Hassabis predicts AGI's impact could be 10 times that of the Industrial Revolution at 10 times the speed.
Demis Hassabis advocates for a new "Frontier AI Standards" body, modeled on a federally overseen public-private partnership like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Demis Hassabis proposes that frontier AI labs voluntarily share models with a new standards body for review up to 30 days before release.
Sam Altman retweeted Anthropic's new ad and commented, "I thought this was satire."
In March 2023, the Future of Life Institute issued an open letter calling for a 6-month global pause on training AI models more powerful than GPT-4.
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab produced a petition titled "We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI's Transformation of the Economy," which was signed by 16 Nobel laureates.
Signatory Anders Sandberg argues that the economics of AI is a surprisingly understudied topic.