{"id":164753,"date":"2023-05-29T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/assessing-ai-risk-skepticism"},"modified":"2023-05-29T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:24:32","slug":"assessing-ai-risk-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/assessing-ai-risk-skepticism","title":{"rendered":"Assessing AI Risk Skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I7Jj7IICMxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How should we respond to the idea that advances in AI pose catastrophic risks for the wellbeing of humanity?<\/p>\n<p>Two sets of arguments have been circulating online for many years, but in light of recent events, are now each mutating into new forms and are attracting much more attention from the public. The first set argues that AI risks are indeed serious. The second set is skeptical. It argues that the risks are exaggerated, or can easily be managed, and are a distraction from more important issues and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>In this London Futurists webinar, recorded on the 27th of May 2023, we assessed the skeptical views. To guide us, we were joined by the two authors of a recently published article, \u201cAI Risk Skepticism: A Comprehensive Survey\u201d, namely Vemir Ambartsoumean and Roman Yampolskiy. We were also joined by Mariana Todorova, a member of the Millennium Project\u2019s AGI scenarios study team.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was introduced and moderated by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about the event and the panellists, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/london-futurists\/events\/293488808\/\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/london-futurists\/events\/293488808\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The paper \u201cAI Risk Skepticism \u2014 A comprehensive study\u201d can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.03885.\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.03885.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/assessing-ai-risk-skepticism\">Continue reading \u201cAssessing AI Risk Skepticism\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we respond to the idea that advances in AI pose catastrophic risks for the wellbeing of humanity? Two sets of arguments have been circulating online for many years, but in light of recent events, are now each mutating into new forms and are attracting much more attention from the public. The first set [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}