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Elite universities students in the United States, such as MIT and Harvard, are abandoning studies to work full time to prevent general artificial intelligence – the AI that will overcome humans intelligence – to turn against humanity.
At a time when many college students are giving up the courses to join AI startupsA former MIT student says he has abandoned the course because he is afraid that something catastrophic happens: that the superhuman AI will completely eliminate the human race.
“Worry-me not to be alive To graduate due to general artificial intelligence, ”says Alice Blair, who enrolled in MIT in 2023 in a report.
“I think that in the vast majority of scenarios, due to the way we are working towards AgR, The result is human extinction“, it says.
Blair now works in the non -profit organization, and has no plans to return to MIT. He expected to meet other people interested in making the Ia safe, but apparently was disappointed. “I predict that my future is in the real world.”
Also Nikola Jurkovic, A former Harvard student has a dark view of his future. “If your career will be automated by the end of the decade, then every last year at the university It is a year subtracted to your short career“.
“Personally I think it agrees Perhaps it is four years away And the complete automation of the economy perhaps five or six, ”says Jurković.
Blair and Jurković are not the only students who are afraid of the potentially devastating impact that I will have in the future of humanity if it becomes a sense of and decide that people take more work than they really are worth.
According to one from the US State Department released in 2024, the US government should act “quickly and decisively” to avoid substantial risks for national security arising from AI, which can, in the worst, cause a “threat of extinction to the human species”.
Many experts are skeptical, however, that we are close to building such a powerful AI model, and point to recent signals that improvements in technology They are reaching a level.
“It is extremely unlikely May Age arise in the next five years, ”says Gary Marcus, an AI investigator and a declared critic of industry to Forbes.“ It’s just Marketing to pretend the oppositewhen so many central problems, such as hallucinations and reasoning errors remain resolved. ”
And although there are very concrete forms that artificial intelligence can cause damage, the Idea of total extinction is a little far -fetchedsays Marcus. Long before that, we have to worry about the impact of AI on our jobs and on the environment.
In truth, The AI industry is interested in which one believes in the prophecy of the end of the world of AI, which creates the idea that the technology is much more capable What is currently – and allows you to control the narrative about how technology should be regulated.
