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Bill Gates accused AI industry leaders of deliberately downplaying the technology’s risks for money
According to Gates, in private conversations the people who best understand the capabilities of current models are "very concerned," but publicly prefer to speak more cautiously so as not to hinder the attraction of the next hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars of investment. Gates himself warns of the risks of bioterrorism, cyberattacks, emotional dependence on chatbots, and mass displacement of people from the labor market. He calls for international regulation of AI and even proposes reserving some professions exclusively for humans.
And he is far from the only billionaire and tech industry executive with such forecasts. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could eliminate up to half of entry-level office jobs within a few years. And Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Amodei himself previously signed a statement from the Center for AI Safety that places the potential risk of human extinction from AI on a par with pandemics and nuclear war.
The “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton and one of the founders of modern machine learning Yoshua Bengio signed the same warning. At the same time, there is no consensus among scientists: for example, Meta’s chief AI researcher Yann LeCun considers such scenarios overly pessimistic.
