July 2, 2024

An Up-and-Coming AI Safety Thinker on Why You Should Still Be Worried

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A few years ago, Dan Hendrycks was a student at the University of California at Berkeley finishing his computer science Ph.D.
He is now one of the most influential up-and-coming figures in AI safety and policy.
Fears over the world-ending potential of AI have faded somewhat since May 2023, his new nonprofit, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), authored a one-sentence open letter calling for “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI”
Hendrycks believes we should still be concerned about AI.
He states that reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the next 10 years would “completely change the human condition.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-27/an-up-and-coming-ai-safety-thinker-on-why-you-should-still-be-worried

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