“Extinction from AI” really doesn’t refer to deepfakes, AI leaving us nothing to do, and algorithmic bias. It doesn’t include any of these categories. There is nothing correct about interpreting “extinction from AI” as referring to either of those things. This holds even if extinction from AI is absolutely impossible, and those other things are both real/imminent and extremely important. Words have meaning even when they refer to fictional ideas.
Deepfakes as in “hey, my uncle posted an AI generated video of Biden eating a baby on FB”, no (though that doesn’t help our readiness as a species). The general ability of AI to deceive, impersonate, and pretty much break any assumption about who we may believe we are talking to though is a prominent detail that often features in extinction scenarios (e.g. how the AI starts making its own money or manipulating humans into producing thing it needs).
I would say “extinction scenarios” include everything that features extinction and AI in the event chain, which doesn’t even strictly need to be a takeover by agentic AI. Anyway the actual signed statement is very general. I can guess that some of these people don’t worry specifically about the “you are made of atoms” scenario, but that’s just arguing against something that isn’t in the statement.
I explained in the rest of the comment why I don’t think they’re incorrect, literally. The signed statement anyway is just:
So that seems to me like it’s succinct enough to include all categories discussed here. I don’t see the issue.
“Extinction from AI” really doesn’t refer to deepfakes, AI leaving us nothing to do, and algorithmic bias. It doesn’t include any of these categories. There is nothing correct about interpreting “extinction from AI” as referring to either of those things. This holds even if extinction from AI is absolutely impossible, and those other things are both real/imminent and extremely important. Words have meaning even when they refer to fictional ideas.
Deepfakes as in “hey, my uncle posted an AI generated video of Biden eating a baby on FB”, no (though that doesn’t help our readiness as a species). The general ability of AI to deceive, impersonate, and pretty much break any assumption about who we may believe we are talking to though is a prominent detail that often features in extinction scenarios (e.g. how the AI starts making its own money or manipulating humans into producing thing it needs).
I would say “extinction scenarios” include everything that features extinction and AI in the event chain, which doesn’t even strictly need to be a takeover by agentic AI. Anyway the actual signed statement is very general. I can guess that some of these people don’t worry specifically about the “you are made of atoms” scenario, but that’s just arguing against something that isn’t in the statement.