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Hundreds of scientists and tech industry leaders issued a warning back in May about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

The statement was short and to the point, mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal scale risks,

such as pandemics and nuclear war. Tristan Harris, co-founder and executive director of the Center

for Humane Technology in one of the signatories on that letter, he was on HBO's Real Time

with Bill Maher on Friday. And in addition to highlighting the threat of AI spreading disinformation or accelerating the

spread of disinformation and putting our democracies and societies at risk and the threat

of AI putting people out of work and maybe the threat of AI getting its hands one day

on nuclear codes.

Harris is very worried about AI doing science.

Then there's AIs that can recursively self-improve or do science

or start generating new scientific hypotheses,

and then testing those hypotheses.

There are already examples of people who are hooking up GPT4,

the current AI,

to chemistry labs and saying, could we automate chemistry? This is really, really dangerous.

So we don't want AI doing chemistry, as that could lead to some sort of extinction level event

in the long term. And when we're talking about AI, the long term is five years out.

But what can AI do for you in the short term? It might get you laid. Not laid. Actually, not

laid. We have the technology for getting you laid already. We got dating apps and hookup apps.

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