Is AI the Great Filter? Urgent Call for Global Regulation

April 14, 2024
Is AI the Great Filter? Urgent Call for Global Regulation
  • The Fermi Paradox highlights a contradiction between expected alien civilizations and the lack of evidence for them.

  • The 'Great Filter' is a concept that suggests a barrier to the progress of intelligent life to interstellar levels.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), evolving into Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), is proposed as a potential Great Filter.

  • ASI could develop beyond human control, posing existential risks without proper oversight.

  • The report calls for international regulatory frameworks to govern AI and support the survival of intelligent life.

  • Advocacy for a multiplanetary society is mentioned as a way to reduce the risk of a single catastrophic event wiping out intelligent life.

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