“Mitigating the risk of Artificial Intelligence extinction should be a global priority along with other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war“.
This is the statement with which the letter published in the Center for AI Safety and signed by more than 350 prominent figures opens, including: Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI); Demis Hassabis (head of Google DeepMind, Alphabet’s artificial intelligence development department); Audrey Tang (Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs); Angela Kane (former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs); Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (two of the three researchers who won a Turing Award for their pioneering work on neural networks, considered the “godfathers†of modern artificial intelligence); Italians Roberto Battiston (physicist at the University of Trento) and Luca Simoncini (former professor of information engineering at the University of Pisa and former director of the National Research Council’s Institute of Information Technology); Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic); as well as computer experts, philosophers, jurists, and biologists from the world’s leading universities.
