Google AI Head Calls for International AI Oversight, Despite Contradictions on AI Safety
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Google AI head Demis Hassabis says AI poses existential threat like climate change, wants UN-like international AI governing body.
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Hassabis praises $10M Google/Microsoft/OpenAI/Anthropic AI safety fund, says we're at pivotal AI moment.
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Hassabis fired researchers Gebru and Mitchell in 2020 for paper warning of AI risks that feel prescient now.
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Paper predicted debates we're having now about AI's environmental impact, biases, deception potential.
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Hassabis warns about rogue AI yet is building one, a contradiction common in AI industry.
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