A group of AI and IT experts have issued a warning about the dangers of AI which is speeding ahead in development without concerns for safety. Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, said “There are more regulations on sandwich shops than there are on AI companies.” “If we build highly advanced autonomous AI, we risk creating systems that autonomously pursue undesirable goals … we may not be able to keep them in check.” An example is that Chat GPT could be made to produce malicious code by use of WormGPT. This may in turn destroy databases, steal personal information, and bring down services.
The experts recommend that apart from mandatory safety protocols, AI companies need to be made liable for the harm done by their products. At the moment they have a dream ride, like Big Pharma, and can freely dump technologies onto the market, with no investigation, or concern of the social harms that may come. It is a common thing with technological developments. AI will be hard to control, given that the West is now in a cyber-arms race, so to speak, with Russia and communist China, neither of whom will worry much about the adverse effects of AI development, as power, and world domination, is all that matters.