An international agency should be in charge of inspecting and auditing artificial general intelligence to ensure the technology is safe for humanity, according to top executives at GPT-4 maker OpenAI.
CEO Sam Altman and co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever said it’s «conceivable» that AI will obtain extraordinary abilities that exceed humans over the next decade.
«In terms of both potential upsides and downsides, superintelligence will be more powerful than other technologies humanity has had to contend with in the past. We can have a dramatically more prosperous future; but we have to manage risk to get there,» the trio said in a blog post on Tuesday.
The costs of building such powerful technology is only decreasing as more people work towards advancing it, they argued. In order to control progress, the development should be supervised by an international organization like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The IAEA was established in 1957 during a time when governments feared that nuclear weapons would be developed during the Cold War.
