Some of the world’s foremost AI researchers and policy leaders — including at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft — are warning that AI’s growing ability to automate its own development could rapidly speed up its progress.
Such a rapid scale-up in capabilities would leave governments and institutions with little time to prepare for or respond to the consequences, they say.
In one scenario, they caution, a year’s worth of advances could occur in a matter of weeks.
The warning’s authors include Turing Award winners such as Geoffrey Hinton, as well as OpenAI’s chief scientist, Microsoft’s chief scientific officer and a co-founder of Anthropic.
In a new white paper, they say AI models that can automate the process of improving themselves will create an “intelligence explosion.”
by Axios – AI pioneers, executives warn of an “intelligence explosion”
