During an interview, the co-founder of Skype expressed concern about the rapid development of AI. He considers that artificial intelligences could manage to dominate humans in the management of the planet and even massacre them.
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Many artificial intelligence (AI) experts and tenors have reservations about its rapid and unregulated development. Forums bringing together many signatories were published from the first months of the wave of generative AIs, starting with ChatGPT, with the public. Among the people who are not really enthusiastic about these AIs is Jaan Tallinn, one of the co-founders of Skype. Also known for having participated in the development of the file sharing application peer-to-peer Kazaa, he fears that an uncontrolled AI will lead to dire circumstances. In 2017, the engineer had also participated in the production of a short film on the consequences of their use. baptized Slaughterbots, as killer robots, it showed robots intended to be piloted by AIs. They killed according to criteria derived from social media profiles, or biometric data, people who did not meet the standards established by their algorithms.
The short film Slaughterbots projects us into a world where AI escapes humans and transforms robots into killers. © Dust
Towards killing robots
It’s in an interview with The Bottom Line d’Algeria that Jaan Tallinn made a point of bringing together the current development of AIs with the consequences that he had staged in his film. A few months ago, the Future of Life Institute gathered signatories and called for a pause in giant AI experiments. It just so happens that Tallinn is well placed on the subject, because it is one of the founders of this institute working on existential threats. For him, while the human being permanently controls this planet, he is embarking on a race to cede this asset to the machines. And it’s far from a good idea… What also scares him is introducing AI into the army. The scientist, however, issued a caveat by observing that Europe is precisely working on regulations specific to AI. He also considers that the results generated by AIs should be systematically labeled as such. Similarly, he wants certification to be put in place for the processing of data used by data centers specific to AI. The problem is that the AIs are likely to be a big step ahead of the implementation of their standards.
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