AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance

Future Risks of Frontier AI

April 23, 2024 Season 3 Episode 2
Future Risks of Frontier AI
AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance
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AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance
Future Risks of Frontier AI
Apr 23, 2024 Season 3 Episode 2

This report from the UK’s Government Office for Science envisions five potential risk scenarios from frontier AI. Each scenario includes information on the AI system’s capabilities, ownership and access, safety, level and distribution of use, and geopolitical context. It provides key policy issues for each scenario and concludes with an overview of existential risk. If you have extra time, we’d recommend you read the entire document.

Original text:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/653bc393d10f3500139a6ac5/future-risks-of-frontier-ai-annex-a.pdf

Author:
The UK Government Office for Science

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.

Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.

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This report from the UK’s Government Office for Science envisions five potential risk scenarios from frontier AI. Each scenario includes information on the AI system’s capabilities, ownership and access, safety, level and distribution of use, and geopolitical context. It provides key policy issues for each scenario and concludes with an overview of existential risk. If you have extra time, we’d recommend you read the entire document.

Original text:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/653bc393d10f3500139a6ac5/future-risks-of-frontier-ai-annex-a.pdf

Author:
The UK Government Office for Science

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.

Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.

Executive Summary
Future Scenarios for exploring Frontier AI Risks
Scenario 1: Unpredictable Advanced AI
Scenario 2: AI Disrupts the Workforce
Scenario 3: AI ‘Wild West’
Scenario 4: Advanced AI on a knife edge
Scenario 5: AI Disappoints
Frontier AI Risks
Current and Future Risks in Context
AI and Existential Risk
Opportunities