Many are shrugging off the supposed existential risks of AI, labeling them a distraction.
They argue big tech companies are using the fears to protect their own interests.
The timing of the pushback, ahead of the UK's AI safety summit and following Biden's recent executive order on AI, is also significant.
More experts are warning that governments' preoccupation with the existential risks of AI is taking priority over the more immediate threats.
Merve Hickok, the president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, raised similar concerns about the UK AI safety summit's emphasis on existential risk.
Persons:
—, You've, there's, Yann LeCun, Altman, Hassabis, LeCun, LeCun's, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Andrew Ng, hasn't, Anthropic, Aidan Gomez, Merve Hickok, Hickok, Rishi Sunak, Michelle Donelan
Organizations:
Service, Google, CNBC, Stanford University, Australian Financial, Guardian, Center, AI