Expert opinions on AI

There’s a stronger case for banning companion-style bots for minors than for banning all chatbots.

Some kids are just too young to understand the difference between AI and a real person. [...] Remember, this is not a person... this is just something you download in the app store. It's not just our kids — these chatbots and the companies behind the...

The rapid development of sophisticated chatbots has left many parents in the dark as powerful AI systems enter children’s lives. Congress has an opportunity to put parents back in control. With the right safeguards, AI systems can benefit a child’s e...

We do this pretraining on human data, and then we get something that… understands human values fairly innately now.

If it takes over that's what will happen. [...] We don't know how to do that. We don't even know if it's possible.

While we have shown that sufficiently strong AI cannot be fully controlled or predicted, we also demonstrate that agents can be influenced by other agents without central control, and that greater diversity and openness influence their behaviour.

I distinguish a robust, systematic and possibly existential hazard to human wellbeing produced by AI advancement and proliferation.

So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...

Those extreme risks are still science fiction. So these speeches are largely diversions, very deliberately crafted.

It is imperative that states initiate a global process toward a binding international instrument that bans and strictly regulates autonomous weapons systems (AWS).

The Government strongly believes that there is a need to maintain meaningful human control of all weapons systems, including any systems that may be developed. Our position is that, for such systems to comply with international humanitarian law, cont...

This article argues that this abhorrence-based case fails to justify, with current evidence, a blanket prohibition.

I fully expect the idea that AI systems are conscious to become increasingly mainstream over the course of this decade, and to spark some heated debates.

The question of whether artificial entities could have consciousness is momentous and unresolved.

This tells us something crucial: complexity and consciousness are not the same thing. That challenges simplistic narratives about ‘conscious AI.’

I have not yet seen the evidence that you’re going to see widespread job destruction because of AI.

While most Finns will benefit from AI adoption, one-fifth of the workforce is at risk of job displacement.

Automation is rapidly dissolving jobs, threatening to turn years of sacrifice into obsolete skills.

As one of the first signatories to the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation, Cambodia stands ready to work shoulder to shoulder with China and all partners in advancing an AI future that is inno...

Middle powers like the UK and Canada will not win the race for ever larger AI models, but through collaboration they can win the deployment race.

To use the most advanced AI models, we largely depend on non-European infrastructure, and not just for the software itself. At best, this dependence will increase our costs. At worst, it will restrict our access to the most advanced AI models, which ...

The EU’s ambition to triple data centre capacity is the right one. But the way to achieve that goal is by attracting investment, not shutting it out.

We can’t let our adversaries — especially China — dodge our export controls by simply renting what they can’t buy. This bill gives American companies the legal clarity they need to do the right thing and report when bad actors are trying to use our o...

coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order

Foundational models are built and controlled elsewhere. Left to drift, the benefits concentrate where capability already sits, while the risks of job displacement, biased systems, extracting of data for value generation, and new dependencies fall on ...

But at the same time we should recognize that there’s a decent possibility that, despite all our efforts, AI still causes significant enduring job loss—and that this may be an intrinsic property of the technology and the way it broadly replicates hum...

Canada’s AI future is powered by workers. As AI is changing the future of work, we are supporting workers to adapt with it. Through this new AI strategy, we're equipping workers with the tools they need to strengthen their skills and helping them sei...

The Department of Labor is committed to making sure all American workers are able to share in the prosperity that AI will create for our economy.

As machines replace human labour, welfare states built on salary-linked taxation will need fundamental redesign. There is a strong case for taxing capital more heavily, particularly when profits reflect market dominance or windfall gains.

Policymakers should not adopt tax policies designed for outlandish AI technology scenarios, but some policies are justified regardless of scenario, such as shifting to consumption-based taxation and reforming unemployment insurance and the tax treatm...

This work reveals some evidence that language models have encoded something like the causal constraints of the real world.

When an AI ingests a Wikipedia entry about types of soup, it's not learning anything about soup. It is learning about the word frequency in articles about soup.

The establishment of the WAICO [...] is a major move by China to answer the call of the Global South and unite the international community together to promote vigorously AI development and governance. It will be an important milestone in the history ...

But the main regret I have with this talk is that I wish I had prepared a more for the section on a “CERN for AI.” The idea behind such a project is to pool many countries’ and companies’ resources into a single (possibly physically decentralized) ci...

Currently, so many needs for innovation are put under the label of AI that there will be no way to address them with a single organisation.

As we enter an age of abundance, I am pleased to say to the noble Lords opposite that it will become the end of capitalism. If resources can become effectively free, other things then become rationed.

If AGI emerges, it could become the most transformative force in economic and social life since the Industrial Revolution. Its promise is extraordinary: near-total automation of intellectual labour, accelerated scientific discovery, rapid innovation ...

The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...