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☆ Richard Branson and Oppenheimer's grandson urge action to stop AI and climate 'catastrophe'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Richard Branson believes the environmental costs of space travel will "come down even further." Dozens of high-profile figures in business and politics are calling on world leaders to address the existential risks of artificial intelligence and the climate crisis. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, along with former United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, and Charles Oppenheimer — the grandson of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer — signed an open letter urging action against the escalating dangers of the climate crisis, pandemics, nuclear weapons, and ungoverned AI. Signatories called for urgent multilateral action, including through financing the transition away from fossil fuels, signing an equitable pandemic treaty, restarting nuclear arms talks, and building global governance needed to make AI a force for good. The letter was released on Thursday by The Elders, a nongovernmental organization that was launched by former South African President Nelson Mandela and Branson to address global human rights issues and advocate for world peace.

Persons: Richard Branson, Ban, Charles Oppenheimer —, J, Robert Oppenheimer —, Nelson Mandela, Branson, MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, Jaan Tallinn Organizations: Virgin Group, United Nations, Elders, South, Life Institute, MIT, Skype

☆ AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta's Yann LeCun thinks tech bosses' bleak comments on AI risks could do more harm than good. Thanks to @RishiSunak & @vonderleyen for realizing that AI xrisk arguments from Turing, Hinton, Bengio, Russell, Altman, Hassabis & Amodei can't be refuted with snark and corporate lobbying alone. https://t.co/Zv1rvOA3Zz — Max Tegmark (@tegmark) October 29, 2023LeCun says founder fretting is just lobbyingSince the launch of ChatGPT , AI's power players have become major public figures. The focus on hypothetical dangers also divert attention away from the boring-but-important question of how AI development actually takes shape. For LeCun, keeping AI development closed is a real reason for alarm.

Persons: Meta's Yann LeCun, —, Yann LeCun, Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, LeCun, Amodei, LeCun's, Max Tegmark, Turing, Hinton, Russell, Tegmark, I'd, fretting, Elon Musk, OpenAI's, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Google, Hassabis, Research, Meta Locations: Bengio, West Coast, China

☆ VCs Marc Andreessen, John Doerr among attendees at Schumer's next AI forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Technologists and advocates are again set to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss with Senate leaders the perils and promises of artificial intelligence. Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, and John Doerr, chair of Kleiner Perkins, will be among the 21 attendees at the second AI Insights Forum hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., according to a spokesperson for his office. The session is a continuation of the Majority Leader's effort to get the chamber up to speed on AI to determine how best to approach AI regulation. For example, Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark is also set to attend. Other tech leaders such as Micron Executive Vice President Manish Bhatia, Revolution CEO Steve Case, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez will be in attendance.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins, Chuck Schumer, Andreessen, Max Tegmark, Elon Musk, Manish Bhatia, Steve Case, Patrick Collison, Aidan Gomez, Derrick Johnson, Amanda Ballantyne, Satya Nadella, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman Organizations: Capitol, Senate, China, Life, Life Institute, Tesla, Space X, Micron, NAACP, AFL, Technology, Microsoft, Google, CNBC, YouTube Locations: coders, India

☆ AI Expert Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing the New Technology’s Challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Max Tegmark has long believed in the promise of artificial intelligence. As a physicist and AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, which studies technology, he has envisioned a near future in which superintelligent computers could fight climate change, find cures for cancer and generally solve our thorniest problems. As long as proper safety standards are in place, he argued, “the sky’s the limit.”

Persons: Max Tegmark Organizations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Life Institute

☆ AI experts disown Musk-backed campaign citing their research
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Civil society groups in the U.S. and EU have since pressed lawmakers to rein in OpenAI's research. Among the research cited was "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots", a well-known paper co-authored by Margaret Mitchell, who previously oversaw ethical AI research at Google. Her research argued the present-day use of AI systems could influence decision-making in relation to climate change, nuclear war, and other existential threats. Asked to comment on the criticism, FLI's Tegmark said both short-term and long-term risks of AI should be taken seriously. Twitter will soon launch a new fee structure for access to its research data, potentially hindering research on the subject.

☆ Elon Musk and other tech leaders call for pause on 'dangerous race' to make A.I. as advanced as humans
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk and dozens of other technology leaders have called on AI labs to pause the development of systems that can compete with human-level intelligence. "Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?" The Future of Life Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that campaigns for the responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence. The institute has previously gotten the likes of Musk and Google-owned AI lab DeepMind to promise never to develop lethal autonomous weapons systems. The institute said it was calling on all AI labs to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."

☆ Topul anului 2018. Ce cărți au citit și recomandă cei mai influenți oameni de afaceri din lume
▼ + stars: | 2018-12-19 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Topul anului 2018. Ce cărți au citit și recomandă cei mai influenți oameni de afaceri din lumeRevista Bloomberg a realizat un top al celor mai citite și recomandate cărți de către cei mai influenți oameni de afaceri din lume. În anul 2018, multe cărți care au ajuns în top abordează subiectele legate de tehnologii și rețelele de socializare și modul cum acestea influențează viața oamenilor. Cea mai recomandată carte de liderii lumii, pentru Bloomberg, este The Coddling of the American Mind (Codificarea minții americane), de Greg Lukianoff și Jonathan Haidt. Pe locul doi s-a clasat Bad Blood (Sânge Rău), de John Carreyrou.

Persons: Topul, În, de tehnologii, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, John Carreyrou, Gil, de James, Deborah Fallows, Tara Westover, de Tyler Cowen, Leonardo da Vinci, de Walter Isaacson, de Alan Gratz, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Edward Tenner, Dan Barber, de Marty Cagan, Grant, de Ron Chernow, de Ray Dalio, de Daniel Coyle, Satya Nadella, Jill Tracie Nichols, Greg Shaw, de Paul Volcker, Christine Harper, Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms, Ulysses S, de Ulysses S, Pearl, Dana Mackenzie, Patty McCord, Be, de Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, de Brené, John Marshall, de Joel R, Paul, de Denis Johnson, Mark Helprin, de Graham Allison, de Lisa Brennan, Max Tegmark, Paula McLain Organizations: lume Revista Bloomberg, Bloomberg, of, Society of Free, Food, Tech, Sound, Good Government, Intelligence Locations: jos, of America, Paris, America, China

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