Explainer: Why are tech experts warning about the danger of AI's growth and what can be done about it?

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SINGAPORE — Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton announced this week that he has quit his job at technology company Google after more than a decade and that part of him regrets his life's wor

at technology company Google after more than a decade and that part of him regrets his life's work.

Future of Life Institute is a non-profit organisation that focuses on transformative technology and its impact on prospects for life. TODAY looks at what experts are worried about and what they predict will happen if such rapidly advancing technology is left unchecked.After the launch of ChatGPT, other tech companies such as Google and Meta scrambled to keep up, with Google releasing ChatGPT rival Bard just a few weeks after.

It called for all AI labs and independent experts to use the pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are audited and overseen by independent experts. "AI has transformed many industries and pretty much everybody has experienced the benefits of AI," he said.

Fake photos of former United States president Donald Trump’s arrest and the Pope wearing a puffer jacket are just a few of such AI-generated content going around the Internet which look deceptively real. This came after a report in March by investment bank Goldman Sachs found that AI could replace 300 million full-time jobs, replacing a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe.Economists told Guardian that this could widen the"already huge income and wealth inequality" in the US by creating a new wave of tech billionaires while pushing many workers out of better paid jobs.

Prof An added that the Government, tech industry and academia should also collaborate to launch regulations to provide good guidelines on AI in terms of data privacy, security and ethics.

 

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