Humanity isn’t ready for the coming intelligence explosion
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THE ECONOMIST — AI leaders are in a race they feel unable to escape. AI investments are set to outspend the Manhattan Project 100-fold, even adjusting for inflation. Yet spending on AI safety might be 100 times less.
Some researchers estimate that within a few months to a few years, AI could achieve so-called closed-loop recursive self-improvement (RSI): the capacity to rewrite its own code to become more capable, without human intervention.
Should that happen, the result could be an intelligence explosion of a kind for which there is no precedent and no map.
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