The US government has a “clear and urgent need” to act as swiftly developing artificial intelligence could potentially lead to human extinction through weaponization and lack of control, according to a government-commissioned report.
The report, obtained by TIME Magazine and titled, “An Motion Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI,” states that “the rise of advanced AI and AGI has the potential to destabilize global security in ways harking back to the introduction of nuclear weapons.”
“Given the growing risk to national security posed by rapidly expanding AI capabilities from weaponization and lack of control — and particularly, the incontrovertible fact that the continued proliferation of those capabilities serves to amplify each risks — there may be a transparent and urgent need for the U.S. government to intervene,” read the report, issued by Gladstone AI Inc.
The report suggested a blueprint plan for intervention that was developed over 13 months during which the researchers spoke with over 200 people, including those from the US and Canadian governments, major cloud providers, AI safety organizations, and security and computing experts.
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The plan begins with establishing interim advanced AI safeguards before formalizing them into law. The safeguards would then be internationalized.
Some measures could include a latest AI agency putting a leash on the extent of computing power AI is ready at, requiring AI corporations to get government permission to deploy latest models above a certain threshold and to consider outlawing the publication of how powerful AI models work, resembling in open-source licensing, TIME reported.
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The report also really helpful the federal government tighten controls on the manufacture and export of AI chips.