Comment by Alex Turner

The solution as I see it is simple. We stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence.

Many researchers believe they are building something that could kill everyone on the planet. It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that.

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silenc...