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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
By https://www.theguardian.com/profile/emily-m-bender5 min read at The Guardian
In brief
This article argues that public and political concern over 'superintelligent' AI distracts from the immediate risks posed by currently existing, error-prone language models.
The authors highlight a reported incident where the U.S. military nearly initiated a conflict with China based on faulty intelligence generated by a chatbot.
They call for stricter regulation based on the actual limitations of current AI systems rather than speculative sci-fi scenarios.
This is an AI-estimated analysis and may not reflect the article's actual intent or the publisher's editorial position.
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The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on brittle chatbots almost brought the US into war with China – went mostly unnoticed by the public.
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