AI is an ‘extinction-level threat to humans’, US warns in its call to limit its power

The US State Department has warned that the increasing speed at which AI is developed could be “catastrophic” for humanity.

This is evident from a new report that examines the risks of AI.

The report is called ‘An action plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI’ Futurism.

It is 247 pages long and was first released in 2022.

The report included interviews with more than 200 experts.

This included experts from OpenAI, Google and Meta.

The report says the US government must take “swift and decisive” action to look at minimizing the power given to AI development.

The report claims we could face an “extinction-level threat to the human species” if no action is taken.

This comes as Peter Deng, the head of ChatGPT, revealed that he believes we should accelerate AI development, but cautiously.

The artificial intelligence expert told an audience his thoughts at this week’s South By Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.

“I’m somewhere in the middle. With any new technology there will be very positive use cases, but there are things we really need to take into account,” he said.

He thinks safe acceleration is possible if all developers are careful.

Deng is not alone in this belief, but there are other AI experts who have called for a slowdown in development.

“The rise of advanced AI and AGI [artificial general intelligence] has the potential to destabilize global security in ways reminiscent of the introduction of nuclear weapons,” the new report warns.

It also says that providing open source information about powerful AI models should be criminalized.

Even Elon Musk has expressed concerns about the speed at which AI is being developed and the lack of safeguards.

He previously signed an open letter urging a pause on creating new systems that are “more powerful” than current bots like ChatGPT.

More than 1,000 industry experts also signed that letter.