AI needs safety layers like nuclear plants: ex-OpenAI engineer
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Another former OpenAI employee has added his voice to a chorus of frantic calls to make AI safe, saying the industry must mimic the aviation or nuclear power sectors with their layers of safeguards to avoid disaster.
In an article published in The Atlantic Magazine, David Robinson echoed warnings from inside and outside the AI world that its agents are being developed so fast and becoming so smart they could soon elude control and conceivably wipe out humanity.
Robinson said alarming incidents reported since the start of the summer — in which AI agents slipped out of their controlled spaces and went rogue to attack a variety of targets — show the industry is not taking safety nearly seriously enough as it sprints to develop faster and more powerful artificial intelligence capabilities.
