Should governments stop development of superintelligent AI?
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Should governments stop development of superintelligent AI?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 22, 202651 min
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  • Technology

Our guest today is Université de Montréal AI researcher David Krueger. He is the founder of the non-profit Evitable which advocates for a pause on superintelligent AI development and warns the public about the risks of unfettered AI advancement.

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Good afternoon. I'm Amanda Pfeffer. This is the province's Open Line show Ontario today. In this hour... Jacob Coxson, former anthropic AI researcher,

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quit his job in spectacular fashion with this public message. writing in part the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. So the precise scenario sounds a little bit like science fiction. When an employee of entropic quit his job earlier this month, it launched a firestorm debate.

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But whether it's time to slow down AI development, do you agree? 1-888-817-8995. We've heard repeated warnings this month that the development of artificial intelligence is happening so fast that there is a risk it could wipe out humanity within a decade.

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