AI systems are rapidly becoming more capable. AI models can generate text, images, and video that are difficult to distinguish from human-created content. While AI has many beneficial applications, it can also be used to perpetuate bias, power autonomous weapons, promote misinformation, and conduct cyberattacks. Even as AI systems are used with human involvement, AI agents are increasingly able to act autonomously to cause harm (Chan et al., 2023).
When AI becomes more advanced, it could eventually pose catastrophic or existential risks. There are many ways in which AI systems could pose or contribute to large-scale risks, some of which are enumerated below.
For more in-depth discussion of extreme risks, please also see our recent work “Natural Selection Favors AIs Over Humans” or Yoshua Bengio’s “How Rogue AIs May Arise”.
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