By Luke Drago and Rudolf LaineThis piece explores key arguments from sections 3 and 4 of The Intelligence Curse, continuing the authors’ analysis of how increasing intelligence can create paradoxical disadvantages, tradeoffs, and coordination challenges.Source:https://intelligence-curse.ai/A podcast by BlueDot Impact.Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.
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AI Is Reviving Fears Around Bioterrorism. What’s the Real Risk?
By Kyle HiebertThe global spread of large language models is heightening concerns that extremists could leverage AI to develop or deploy biological weapons. While some studies suggest chatbots only marginally improve bioterror capabilities compared to internet searches, other assessments show rapid year-on-year gains in AI systems’ ability to advise on acquiring and formulating deadly agents. Policymakers now face an urgent question: how real and imminent is the threat of AI-enabled bioterrorism?Source:https://www.cigionline.org/articles/ai-is-reviving-fears-around-bioterrorism-whats-the-real-risk/A podcast by BlueDot Impact.Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.
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AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks
By Bill Drexel and Caleb WithersThis report considers how rapid AI advancements could reshape biosecurity risks, from bioterrorism to engineered superviruses, and assesses which interventions are needed today. It situates these risks in the history of American biosecurity and offers recommendations for policymakers to curb catastrophic threats.Source:https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/ai-and-the-evolution-of-biological-national-security-risksA podcast by BlueDot Impact.Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.
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The Most Important Time in History Is Now
By Tomas PueyoThis blog post traces AI's rapid leap from high school to PhD-level intelligence in just two years, examines whether physical bottlenecks like computing power can slow this acceleration, and argues that recent efficiency breakthroughs suggest we're approaching an intelligence explosion.Source: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-important-time-in-history-agi-asiA podcast by BlueDot Impact.Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.
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Why Do People Disagree About When Powerful AI Will Arrive?
By Sarah Hastings-WoodhouseMost experts agree that AGI is possible. They also agree that it will have transformative consequences. There is less consensus about what these consequences will be. Some believe AGI will usher in an age of radical abundance. Others believe it will likely lead to human extinction. One thing we can be sure of is that a post-AGI world would look very different to the one we live in today. So, is AGI just around the corner? Or are there still hard problems in front of us that will take decades to crack, despite the speed of recent progress? This is a subject of live debate. Ask various groups when they think AGI will arrive and you’ll get very different answers, ranging from just a couple of years to more than two decades.Why is this? We’ve tried to pin down some core disagreements. Source:https://bluedot.org/blog/agi-timelinesA podcast by BlueDot Impact.Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.
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