{"id":191015,"date":"2024-06-11T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/former-openai-director-warns-there-are-bad-things-ai-can-do-besides-kill-you"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:22:32","slug":"former-openai-director-warns-there-are-bad-things-ai-can-do-besides-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/former-openai-director-warns-there-are-bad-things-ai-can-do-besides-kill-you","title":{"rendered":"Former OpenAI Director Warns There Are Bad Things AI Can Do Besides Kill You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-openai-director-warns-there-are-bad-things-ai-can-do-besides-kill-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of other ways that AI could really take things in a bad direction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One of the OpenAI directors who worked to oust CEO Sam Altman is issuing some stark warnings about the future of unchecked artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/05\/artificial-intelligence-helen-toner-openai-cset\" class=\"\">interview during <em>Axios<\/em>\u2019 AI+ summit<\/a>, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner suggested that the risks AI poses to humanity aren\u2019t just worst-case scenarios from science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think sometimes people hear the phrase \u2018existential risk\u2019 and they just think Skynet, and robots shooting humans,\u201d Toner said, referencing the evil AI technology from the \u201cTerminator\u201d films that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/terminator-2-judgment-day-skynet-ai-predictions-chatgpt-robotics-humanoid-225747375.html\" class=\"\">often used as a metaphor<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3254054\/skynet-20-china-plans-bring-largest-surveillance-camera-network-earth-moon-protect-lunar-assets\" class=\"\">worst-case-scenario AI predictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot of other ways that AI could really take things in a bad direction. One of the OpenAI directors who worked to oust CEO Sam Altman is issuing some stark warnings about the future of unchecked artificial intelligence. In an interview during Axios\u2019 AI+ summit, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner suggested that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191015","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}