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Rishi Sunak said there is a risk that humanity could “lose control” of a “super intelligence” AI but insisted people do not need to “lose sleep” over such a risk right now.
Delivering a speech on artificial intelligence safety in London this morning, the Prime Minister highlighted some of the risks which could emerge in the coming years while also highlighting the huge benefits the technology could bring.
He said: “In the most unlikely but extreme cases there is even the risk that humanity could lose control of AI completely through the kind of AI sometimes referred to as super intelligence.”
But Mr Sunak said he wanted to be “completely clear” that that was “not a risk that people need to be losing sleep over right now”.
He said: “I don’t want to be alarmist and there is real debate about this, some experts think it will never happen at all. But however uncertain and unlikely these risks are, if they did manifest themselves the consequences would be incredibly serious and when so many of the biggest developers of this technology themselves warn of these risk, leaders have a responsibility to take them seriously and to act and that is what I am doing today.”
Mr Sunak said he believed AI can “help us solve some of the greatest social challenges of our time” and the transformation caused by the technology will be “as far reaching as the industrial revolution, the coming of electricity or the birth of the internet”.
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