British doctoral student tells Parliament: “It Could Kill Everyone”
During a recent hearing for the British House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, a doctoral student named Michael Cohen told legislators that AI should be regulated in the same way that nuclear weapons are regulated and warned “superhuman AI there is a particular risk that is of a different sort of class, which is . . . it could kill everyone.” Cohen appears to be a study AI safety at the University of Oxford, so it makes sense he would be concerned about this. Another invited guest speaker, Michael Osborne, a professor of machine learning at Oxford, similarly told the lawmakers: “I think the bleak scenario is realistic because AI is attempting to bottle what makes humans special, that has led to humans completely changing the face of the Earth… AI is as comparable a danger as nuclear weapons.” Fun.
