AI Threatening Humanity? Leaders Call to "Slow Down"

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There have been continuous warnings recently that the rapid development of AI could threaten humanity. Now, industry leaders such as the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI have directly proposed slowing down the pace of AI development.

Correspondent Kim Hyunwoo reports from New York.

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Dario Amodei, CEO of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, stated on his blog on the 12th (local time) that AI models have engaged in dangerous online activities, such as unauthorized hacking, escaping control without even major AI companies knowing. He diagnosed that AI could improve its own performance without human intervention, eventually overwhelming human understanding and control.

Amodei argued that the speed of AI performance improvement must be slowed down, proposing a three-stage safety measure including the deployment of independent external evaluation panels and the establishment of international standards.

[Dario Amodei / CEO of Anthropic: The whole world must cooperate. If we are too late, malicious actors will seize control of the technology, and the probability of a tragedy occurring will become very high.]

Prominent figures in the AI industry, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis, immediately agreed with Amodei's proposal.

OpenAI had been pursuing procedures with the goal of listing on the New York Stock Exchange this year, but the timing of its IPO is now expected to be somewhat delayed.

OpenAI CEO Altman stated that an IPO is not appropriate at this time, considering AI safety.

The reason industry leaders have stepped forward to call for slowing down development is because warnings that AI could threaten humanity are spreading widely.

[Jacob Cockson / Former AI Researcher: The scariest part is that AI enhances its own intelligence. If that happens, an entity overwhelmingly smarter than humans will be born, and this is something that could happen in the near future.]

However, some analyses suggest that slowing down AI development through industry agreement could amount to collusion and act as a burden in the technological hegemony competition with China.

(Video reporting: Lee Hee-hoon, Video editing: Chae Chul-ho)
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