Outdated software, aging infrastructure and other weaknesses leave California’s critical water supply vulnerable to cyberattacks and other threats.. Among the dangers it foresees are AI-designed chemical weapons, personalized disinformation campaigns, humans becoming completely dependent on machines and synthetic minds evolving past the point where humans can control them.
Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer who signed the new statement, quit Google earlier this year, saying he wanted to be free to speak about his concerns about potential harm from systems like those he helped to design.told the New York TimesThe March letter did not include the support of executives from the major AI players and went significantly further than the newer statement in calling for a voluntary six-month pause in development.