The end of the world is AI? An existential threat

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show the resurgence of oral culture.

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  And why Indians are getting into cheese.

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  First up though, is the end of the world nigh?

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  In AI, have we created the instrument of our own destruction?

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  You might say those are pretty big questions.

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  And in recent weeks, the possible extinction of humanity has moved to the front of the conversation.

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  Yesterday at a conference run by software firm Salesforce

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  even Sam Altman of OpenAI recognized the high stakes.

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  The potential of a loss of control accident or some other serious thing that could go wrong.

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  Um we have the potential of way too much power concentration

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  and people fear that those developing AI could exert their world view.

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  But, surprise, surprise, there's some disagreement over who should be responsible for monitoring that risk.

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  Dario Amodei of Anthropic seems to approve some form of collective action.

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  Let's make our practices better.

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  Um let's recommit to transparency.

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  Let's invest more in safety.

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