Founder of the Alignment Research Center and co-creator of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Christiano walked his audience through a number of topics, including the OpenAI Hugging Face hack earlier this year, the risk of an AI takeover and the need for an ability to slow down or stop artificial intelligence. I think we have seen roughly the things we might expect to see shortly before something really bad would happen,” Christiano said, suggesting that AI may try to take over in the next three years. These words come just months after AI researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned from the AI company Anthropic, warning that the race to build increasingly powerful AI models poses an existential threat to humanity.
Christiano joined the OpenAI nonprofit board in September when he shared concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence. This is a developing story and will be updated.
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