During a New York City Council session, former employees who left Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind warned of a reckless culture at major technology companies, stressing that the race to develop uncontrollable technologies could lead to humanity losing control over artificial intelligence and perhaps the extinction of the human race, while prominent executives agreed on the need to slow down development.
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The meeting came after Trump issued an official decision to replace the term “artificial intelligence” (AI) with the term “super intelligence” (SI) in US federal documents and correspondence, considering that the word “artificial” gives an unreal impression of the technology.
During a New York City Council session, former employees who recently left Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind described a reckless culture within these companies, saying that major technology companies are racing to create technologies that they do not know how to control.
“Companies operate with a startup mentality: move fast, break things, fix them later,” said Jacob Cookson, a former engineer at Anthropic who has become a leading voice calling for regulation. “That might work for a photo-sharing app, but it doesn’t work when building the most powerful technology ever developed.”
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“On the current trajectory, I think the possibility of humanity losing control to artificial intelligence systems is more likely, and the human race could end up being extinct,” Cookson added.
Days after Cookson resigned and announced his fears of the worst-case scenarios, prominent executives, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk, said they agree on the need to slow down the development of artificial intelligence.
Members of a panel of workers at artificial intelligence companies also testified during the Manhattan hearing, telling officials that their systems are already improving people's daily lives, stressing that they focus intensely on security.
State and city governments are examining ways to regulate artificial intelligence, at a time when the Trump administration has taken a negative approach and Congress has shown no significant effort.
This meeting came after Trump issued an official decision to replace the term "artificial intelligence" (AI) with the term "super intelligence - SI" in US federal documents and correspondence, considering that the word "artificial" gives an unreal impression of the technology. Trump stressed that the United States does not intend to obstruct the development of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Pressure on governments to establish regulatory frameworks for AI will increase in the coming months
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Companies will continue to develop AI technologies with an increasing focus on safety measures
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