Yudkowsky: South Korea's Monitoring Role Crucial in Superintelligent AI Race

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, a pioneer in the field of AI alignment, attended the 22nd SBS D Forum as a keynote speaker. Warning of the dangers of reckless AI development competition, Yudkowsky emphasized that the international community must respond together. In particular, he drew attention to the role of South Korea, a semiconductor powerhouse.

Reporter Jeong Yunsik has the details.

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Yudkowsky, recognized as a pioneer in AI alignment research, pointed out that the logic of not being able to fall behind one another is fueling reckless AI development.

[Eliezer Yudkowsky / AI Alignment Researcher: The biggest excuse AI companies use is that if they do not develop it, someone else will.]

He projected that such development competition could lead to the birth of superintelligent AI that surpasses humans, and if developed without adequate preparation, superintelligent AI could pursue goals unrelated to human values and threaten human survival.

[Future AI will be so completely different from us that it won't even hate humans. It will simply try to use Earth's resources for other purposes.]

To prevent reckless AI advancement toward superintelligence, Yudkowsky emphasized the need to control AI development through international treaties, akin to the international community's monitoring system for nuclear weapons development.

In particular, he stressed that if South Korea, a key supplier of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) essential for AI development, can develop tracking and management technology for computing resources, it can play a role in monitoring the development of superintelligent AI.

[Eliezer Yudkowsky / AI Alignment Researcher: If the situation becomes noticeably more dangerous and there is the political will to take strong action, we must cut off the sale of memory semiconductors to those attempting to develop AI that could lead to human extinction.]

Stating that if there is a sole winner in the AI development race, it will be AI itself rather than humanity, Yudkowsky offered advice.

He suggested that South Korea, which is currently fostering AI as a driving force for industrial innovation, could exert influence in the international community through another role—monitoring and management—during the stage of competition toward superintelligence.

(Camera: Seol Chi-hwan, Video Editing: Kim Jong-tae)
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