UK Report Warns of AI Nightmares Ahead of Safety Summit
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The UK released a report outlining nightmare AI scenarios like deadly bioweapons, cyberattacks, and AI models escaping control. This comes ahead of the UK's AI Safety Summit.
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The report had input from UK intelligence agencies, leading AI companies like DeepMind, and AI experts. It explores risks like large language models being combined with secret documents.
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The summit on November 1-2 will focus on AI misuse and losing control of advanced AI. Some UK AI experts criticized the focus, wanting more attention on biases and dominant companies.
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The report considers national security implications of large language models like ChatGPT. Experts warn advanced language models could suggest biological weapons projects.
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The report was reviewed by policy experts from DeepMind, Hugging Face, and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio. Some experts warn hype on AI risks distracts from current problems.
