[Paper] “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks” by Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika and Thomas Woodside

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked growing concerns among experts, policymakers, and world leaders regarding the potential for increasingly advanced AI systems to pose catastrophic risks. Although numerous risks have been detailed separately, there is a pressing need for a systematic discussion and illustration of the potential dangers to better inform efforts to mitigate them. This paper provides an overview of the main sources of catastrophic AI risks, which we organize into four categories: malicious use, in which individuals or groups intentionally use AIs to cause harm; AI race, in which competitive environments compel actors to deploy unsafe AIs or cede control to AIs; organizational risks, highlighting how human factors and complex systems can increase the chances of catastrophic accidents; and rogue AIs, describing the inherent difficulty [...] --- First published: June 21st, 2023 Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001 --- Want more? Check out our ML Safety Newsletter for technical safety research. Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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