AI corporations have been speaking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, however current safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential risks of deploying AI programs which are extra succesful than people. So what occurs after we can’t reliably management what these programs do?
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Govt Director of nonprofit ControlAI, which is pushing for a much more radical method to AI security: stopping corporations from growing superintelligence altogether. Leahy explains why he thinks the dangers have grow to be too nice to handle via alignment and containment alone, and the way what sounded far-fetched six months in the past is now being backed by a wave of latest laws.
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