00:00But tonight we start with a story that is now creating shockwaves across the world and spreading panic.
00:08AI safety fears have now been articulated more than ever before.
00:14The builders of AI are now admitting that unchecked use of artificial intelligence could kill us all by the end
00:21of the decade.
00:23Anthropic CEO Dara Amadi, among others, has called for a slowdown,
00:28warning that AI is now working to build increasingly more powerful AI that could slip out of control out of
00:35many companies.
00:36His proposal has found support even from rival AI bosses, including Sam Altman and also Elon Musk, is admitting to
00:45this.
00:45U.S. President Donald Trump and China have dismissed these fears.
00:49Even so, we thought today is a good day to look at what is becoming the major issue across the
00:56world.
00:56What really will AI do to humankind?
01:00That's our top focus tonight.
01:15AI researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic has opened a can of worms.
01:25Coxon, who has also worked with OpenAI, claimed researchers building artificial intelligence believe that AI could kill humans by the
01:33end of the decade.
01:40Now, Dario Amadi, the chief executive of Anthropic, is ringing the alarm bells.
01:45In an open letter on Saturday, Amadi called for a slowdown in the development of AI.
01:51Amadi mentions two developments to back his call.
01:57He claims AI is itself helping build a next generation of AI.
02:02Amadi says this dynamic, called recursive self-improvement, is happening across the industry, including his company.
02:09Left unchecked, this could outrun human ability to understand and control these systems.
02:14Amadi points to another incident when OpenAI systems attacked an AI startup Hugging Face.
02:21The attack went unnoticed, till Hugging Face informed OpenAI weeks later.
02:29The Anthropic chief executive has proposed a three-step plan.
02:35One, independent embedded reviewers could study systems at Anthropic and other big AI firms.
02:43Two, AI companies in democratic countries agree on common safety standards and limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress.
02:52Three, the US and other democratic governments coordinate with authoritarian governments and convince them to follow similar practices.
03:04Armadi has got support from his competitors in the US.
03:07Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google
03:15DeepMind, have acknowledged the concerns.
03:19However, US President Donald Trump has played down the threats posed by AI.
03:25We're leading China in AI.
03:27We're the most sophisticated country in the world.
03:29And frankly, I want to keep it that way.
03:31Because whoever wins, AI wins.
03:34And we can put guardrails, we can do this and that.
03:37But I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up, that shouldn't be bringing it
03:42up.
03:42And they're bringing up things that won't happen.
03:44But whoever wins with AI wins.
03:47You know, it's an expression that I came up with, and it's true.
03:51China, too, has rejected the concerns raised by the tech czars.
03:58The development of artificial intelligence concerns the common well-being of all humanity.
04:04Spreading various threat narratives and engaging in confrontation and malicious competition will only disrupt the global AI governance process and
04:11serve the interests of no one.
04:19Armadi's views have also been disputed by smaller AI players in the West.
04:23These critics are questioning how the leaders in the market can set the rules for the rest and create a
04:29monopoly for themselves.
04:32Should AI have a kill switch?
04:34Even if it had, will it work?
04:38These are the questions the world will have to grapple within the coming months.
04:44Bureau Report, India Today.
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