Would it be too disruptive if protests staged sit-ins or chained themselves to the doors of AI developers, one member of the Discord asked. âProbably not. We do what we have to, in the end, for a future with humanity, while we still can.â
Meindertsma had been worried about the consequences of AI after reading Superintelligence, a 2014 book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that popularized the idea that very advanced AI systems could pose a risk to human existence altogether. Joseph Miller, the organizer of PauseAIâs protest in London was similarly inspired.
It was the launch of OpenAIâs large language model Chat-GPT 3 in 2020 that really got Miller worried about the trajectory AI was on. âI suddenly realized that this is not a problem for the distant future, this is something where AI is really getting good now,â he says. Miller joined an AI safety research…
