Nick Clegg

The fundamental idea is, how should we as a world react if and when AI develops a degree of autonomy or agency? [...] Once we do that, we do cross a Rubicon. If that happens, by the way, there’s debate among experts; some say in the next 18 months, some say not within 80 years. But once you cross that Rubicon, you’re in a very different world. The large language models we’ve released are very primitive compared to that vision of the future. [...] But if it does emerge, I do think, whether it’s the IAEA or some other regulatory model, you’re in a completely different ballgame. (2023) source Unverified

My view is that the hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology. I think a lot of the existential warnings relate to models that don’t currently exist, so-called super-intelligent, super-powerful AI models – the vision where AI develops an autonomy and agency on its own, where it can think for itself and reproduce itself. The models that we’re open-sourcing are far, far, far short of that. In fact, in many ways they’re quite stupid. (2023) source Unverified