AI capabilities are advancing far faster than our ability to make them safe. The leading labs are racing to build AI systems that match or exceed human intelligence, yet nobody, including the labs themselves, knows how to control such systems.
If we build such an AI, there are strong reasons to believe that we will lose control of it, with consequences up to and including human extinction.
This is not a fringe worry.
Geoffrey Hinton, who won a Nobel prize for the work underpinning modern AI, left Google to warn about it. In 2023, the CEOs of the leading AI labs, the very people building these systems, signed a public statement that mitigating extinction risk from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.
To understand the argument in depth, we recommend the Compendium.
To see who has signed the extinction risk statement, see the Statement on AI Extinction Risk.
There are credible solutions – but all of them require sustained government action, which normally only happens when voters demand this.
That is why ASVA exists: to put organised voter pressure on the UK government.
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