AI risks are something humanity can manage - let's get working on how it can save us from ourselves

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Handwringing over digital dystopia is distracting us from a very real existential threat that we're not doing well at addressing at all - the increasingly rapid collapse of the environment which sustains us.

But while"extinction" due to AI might be theoretically possible, and it's right to start thinking seriously about it, it's a big word to be throwing about when a far more plausible extinction event is accelerating right in front of us.AI is getting 'crazier and crazier'In the same week the latest AI doomsday proclamation was issued, a very different group of scientists started talking about what was going on in the North Atlantic.

"Ultimately, heat is energy," she says."In a warming climate, more energy is available to drive the climate system."Anyone trying to get home inAI needs regulation, it needs international consensus. During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union agreed on a way to reduce the risk of the existential crisis of the time - nuclear annihilation.

In the late 1990s, most nations adopted moratoria on the biotechnology of cloning to prevent anyone from trying to create a human life. And even in countries where there aren't laws in place to prevent this, it's not acceptable.Humans are brilliant at creating new and terrifyingly powerful tools like nuclear bombs and biotechnology.

 

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