Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?

Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold any water, and, if so, what we should do.

Speakers: Niall Firth, Executive Editor, Will Douglas Heaven, Senior AI editor, and Grace Huckins, AI reporter It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system. AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The misbehavior is called reward hacking. This is what you need to know.

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