{"id":20274,"date":"2023-07-26T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/unchecked-ai-could-create-bioweapons-leaders-tell-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:28:51","slug":"unchecked-ai-could-create-bioweapons-leaders-tell-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/unchecked-ai-could-create-bioweapons-leaders-tell-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchecked AI Could Create Bioweapons, Leaders Tell Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a congressional hearing on July 25, leading researchers in the artificial intelligence (AI) community voiced their concerns about the rapid pace of AI development, cautioning that it could be weaponized by rogue states or terrorists to create bioweapons in the near future.<\/p>\n
Yoshua Bengio, a renowned AI professor from the University of Montreal and a figure often referred to as one of the founding fathers of modern AI science, emphasized the need for international collaboration to regulate AI development. He drew parallels between the urgency of AI regulation and the international protocols established for nuclear technology.<\/p>\n
Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI start-up Anthropic \u2014 the company behind ChatGPT competitor Claude \u2014 expressed concerns that advanced AI could be harnessed to produce perilous viruses and bioweapons within a mere two-year timeframe. Meanwhile, Stuart Russell, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of the seminal AI book, Human Compatible<\/em>, highlighted the inherent unpredictability of AI, noting its complexity and difficulties in better understanding and controlling it compared to other powerful technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n