On Tuesday, nonprofit organization Center for AI Safety published an open letter warning readers that the "risk of extinction from AI" should be a "global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," and demanded action.
The letter, which has the support of leading tech innovators — including those who are largely responsible for today's greatest artificial-intelligence advancements — follows a similar call for oversight from the Future of Life Institute, which in March urged developers to "pause giant AI experiments." Still, the AI market is expected to grow 37.3% annually between 2023 and 2030, according to market analysis and consulting services company GrandViewResearch. Will any
"Anyone who's been in tech and AI for the last five to seven years has known that this moment was going to come," says Alexa Eden, human technologist at AlgoAI Tech, an AI platform that designs matching algorithms for recruitment and entertainment spaces. "We just needed leaders to stand up and say, 'We know the power of this, but also, we don't know the power of this. So to keep everything in check, let's slow down a little bit.'"
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It's easy to understand at least some of the fear: 77% of employees are concerned that AI will cause job loss in the next year, according to a Forbes Advisor survey. And in 2018, a report by McKinsey estimated that up to 400 million workers may be displaced by AI by 2030. But AI has also created positive change, from
"[AI] is not going anywhere," Eden recently told EBN. "It's going to be integrated into our corporate spaces, into our lives, into our day to day, into our shopping habits — everything. How do we want to use this time between now and every month, year or decade to come in the best way possible to make sure that we, as humans, are prepared for the next steps?"
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