Extra: Why A Renowned AI Expert Says We May Be "Headed For A Catastrophe"

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Artificial intelligence may be the technology of the future, but could it bring us more harm than good? That is what some AI researchers and tech experts fear, and that is why more than 1,000 of them signed a letter earlier this year urging a ‘pause’ on some AI development. Eliezer Yudkowsky, a decision theorist at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute who has studied AI for more than 20 years, thinks that letter does not go far enough. He says AI could actually lead to the end of humanity, and we need international agreements now to prevent the technology from advancing too far. He even believes we may need a ‘shooting war’ to stop a country that refuses to comply. Yudkowsky recently spoke with FOX News Rundown’s Jessica Rosenthal about why he is trying to raise the alarm over AI and why action is needed now. He offered some blunt warnings and compared AI’s threat to that of nuclear war. Due to time limitations, we could not include the conversation in our weekday editions of the Fox News Rundown. In a FOX News Rundown Extra exclusive, you will hear our entire unedited interview with AI expert Eliezer Yudkowsky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Fox News rundown Extra.
0:07.0	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:08.7	This week we spoke with several people during our series of rundown podcast segments on
0:13.0	the rise of AI, including Eliezer Yudkowski.
0:16.5	He's been researching and working on artificial intelligence for over two decades now, and
0:20.9	he says unequivocally, stop now.
0:23.6	We should all stop now.
0:24.6	Well, the people working on AI should stop trying to make it better, faster, smarter,
0:29.5	all of it.
0:30.5	Just leave AI as it is right now before it goes any further.
0:33.7	He explains that he thinks we must have international agreements in place first with everyone on board
0:38.1	and then figure out the rules of the road from there, as in how AI should be further developed
0:42.5	if at all.
0:43.5	And in his humility, he answered many of my questions with a simple, I don't know, or we don't
0:48.5	know.
0:49.5	Adding none of us know.
0:50.5	No one really knows enough about AI yet.
0:53.2	And because we don't know enough about what we've created, we should stop before we set
0:57.2	AI on a path that he says could lead to our extinction.
1:01.5	We bring you plenty of fresh interviews each day during the week, and sometimes we have
1:04.6	more to share like this one with Eliezer Yudkowski, so we'll play for you now our entire interview
1:09.0	with him.
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