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The guy who literally wrote the textbook on AI says when it comes to the extinction scenario the human race is cooked: 'Making these systems more capable… doesn't seem like a sensible move'

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(Image credit: Warner Bros.) The ongoing Musk vs Altman trial, which centres around Elon Musk's claim he was deceived by Sam Altman about OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, has seen the disclosure of a slew of documents from various figures involved. These are mostly emails and texts, which show things like how the world's billionaires are terrified of the Google AI genius behind a 25-year-old computer game, because they think he might actually end up controlling god (in the form of artificial general intelligence, or AGI). But there are also some interesting moments with figures that aren't so directly involved in all the drama. One piece of testimony that really jumped out at me came from Stuart Russell, a computer scientist who's an authority on AI and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , which is considered the foundational textbook in the field.…

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