Nearly 400 big names signed an open letter warning about the risks of AI, including the founder of OpenAI

Economic Observer Network reporter Ren Xiaoning On May 30, Eastern Time, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Security (CAIS), a US non-profit organization, published a joint open letter on its official website, saying that AI is comparable to a "pandemic" and nuclear war" may bring extinction risks to humankind.

The open letter has only one sentence: "Mitigating the extinction risk posed by artificial intelligence should become a global priority on the same level as other society-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

Currently, more than 370 AI tycoons have signed the above-mentioned joint open letter, including the heads of three major AI companies, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amode.

Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award winners and known as the "godfathers" of artificial intelligence, also signed this open letter.

There are also Chinese scholars on the signing list, including Zhang Yaqin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Institute of Intelligent Industry of Tsinghua University, Zeng Yi, director of the Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Governance Research Center of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhan Xianyuan, associate professor of Tsinghua University.

The list is mainly composed of professors from world-renowned universities, followed by artificial intelligence scientists, and also politicians, such as Kersti Kaljulaid, the former President of the Republic of Estonia.

The number of people on this list is still growing. Economic Observer Network reporters saw on the CAIS official website that artificial intelligence scientists or celebrities (executives, professors, leaders) can submit a signed statement and receive a confirmation email.

CAIS, a non-profit organization located in San Francisco, USA, focuses on artificial intelligence security. They stated on their official website that as long as artificial intelligence (AI) can be developed and applied safely, it is expected to bring many global benefits. Despite the tremendous progress in artificial intelligence, there are still many fundamental issues that need to be solved when it comes to artificial intelligence safety. Their mission is to reduce society-scale risks associated with artificial intelligence by conducting safety research, establishing the field of AI safety research, and advocating for safety standards.

In March this year, thousands of well-known foreign figures also signed an open letter warning of the risks of AI. On March 29, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and others issued a joint announcement on the website of the non-profit organization Future of Life Institute, calling for a suspension of development AI system more powerful than GPT-4 for at least 6 months, saying it "poses a potential risk to society and humanity."

Currently, OpenAI has suspended the development of GPT-5.

Yoshua Bengio mentioned the reason for signing and said that this open letter can remind academia and industry: We must take the time to better understand these systems and develop the necessary frameworks at the national and international levels to increase the protection of the public. . Although the impact of signing this open letter may not be that significant, it will at least spark discussion throughout society.

Abroad, as ChatGPT is more widely used, the risk of exposure is gradually increasing. On March 28, according to Belgian media LaLibre, a 30-year-old Belgian man committed suicide after weeks of intensive communication with the chatbot ELIZA, an open source artificial intelligence language model developed by EleutherAI.

Pictures showing an explosion occurred in the area near the Pentagon on May 22 quickly spread on social media. The widespread dissemination of the fake photo caused the S&P 500 to drop about 0.3% to an intraday low in the short term, switching from gains to losses. Later, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense confirmed that this was a fake picture generated by AI. This picture had obvious AI-generated characteristics, such as the street lights being a little crooked and the fence growing on the sidewalk.

After AI cover songs became a trend, Universal Music, which controls nearly one-third of the global music market, has issued a letter requesting streaming media platforms such as Apple and Spotify to ban AI works that infringe on the company's melody and lyrics copyrights.

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