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Steve Wozniak

co-founder of Apple

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The out-of-control development and proliferation of increasingly powerful AI systems could inflict terrible harms, either deliberately or accidentally, and will be weaponized by the worst actors in our society

Steve Wozniak

co-founder of Apple

In a 2023 statement published by the Future of Life Institute, Steve Wozniak said out-of-control development and spread of increasingly powerful AI systems could cause terrible harm, either deliberately or accidentally, and that such systems would be weaponized by malicious actors.

Apple co-founderPublished September 21, 2023 · date of remarks not establishedAs Six-Month Pause Letter Expires, Experts Call for Regulation of Advanced AI Development

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Aer the pause letter, humanity and its governments returned to the oﬀice and, finally, read the email from the aliens. Let’s hope it’s not too late." “The out-of-control development and proliferation of increasingly powerful AI systems could inflict terrible harms, either deliberately or accidentally, and will be weaponized by the worst actors in our society “Leaders must step in to help ensure they are developed safely and transparently, and that creators are accountable for the harms they cause.

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FLI does not describe whether this standalone statement was written directly by Wozniak, transcribed from speech, or supplied through a representative.
The phrase terrible harms is broad and does not itself specify extinction, catastrophe scale, or loss of control.

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Leaders must step in to help ensure they are developed safely and transparently, and that creators are accountable for the harms they cause. Crucially, we desperately need an AI policy framework that holds human beings responsible, and helps prevent horrible people from using this incredible technology to do evil things.

Steve Wozniak

co-founder of Apple

In a 2023 statement published by the Future of Life Institute, Steve Wozniak called for leaders to help ensure safe and transparent AI development, hold creators accountable for harms, and prevent malicious use.

Apple co-founderPublished September 21, 2023 · date of remarks not establishedAs Six-Month Pause Letter Expires, Experts Call for Regulation of Advanced AI Development

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“The out-of-control development and proliferation of increasingly powerful AI systems could inflict terrible harms, either deliberately or accidentally, and will be weaponized by the worst actors in our society,” Wozniak explains. “Leaders must step in to help ensure they are developed safely and transparently, and that creators are accountable for the harms they cause. Crucially, we desperately need an AI policy framework that holds human beings responsible, and helps prevent horrible people from using this incredible technology to do evil things.” “It’s been encouraging to see public sector leaders step up to the enormous challenge of Future of Life Institute www.futureoﬂife.org governing the AI-powered social and economic revolution we find ourselves in the

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The proposed policy framework is not specified by jurisdiction, regulator, enforcement mechanism, or covered system threshold.
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So, I’m not convinced that we’re really going to get to the point where they really can make an artificial brain. Not at the general level human brains work, like with intuition. A computer could figure out a logical endpoint decision, but that’s not the way intelligence works in humans. Well, I’m not gonna say they cannot do it. But every bit of tech we’ve ever built is for helping people in different ways. Technology is designed to be something good in life.

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Steve Wozniak

co-founder of Apple

In a 2017 WIRED interview, Steve Wozniak said he was not convinced engineers would create a human-level artificial brain, did not rule it out, and expected robots to improve human lives.

Apple co-founderPublished April 19, 2017 · date of remarks not establishedOriginal WIRED Q&A with Steve Wozniak

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You have a lot of people who study the brain, and all they can say is some processes are governed in certain places. But they don’t know how all those processes are wired together. They don’t even know where memory is stored! So, I’m not convinced that we’re really going to get to the point where they really can make an artificial brain. Not at the general level human brains work, like with intuition. A computer could figure out a logical endpoint decision, but that’s not the way intelligence works in humans. Well, I’m not gonna say they cannot do it. But every bit of tech we’ve ever built is for helping people in different ways. Technology is designed to be something good in life. So, I believe optimistically that the robots we’re building are going to help us have better human lives. You are famous for kicking off the PC revolution, which kicked off the smartphone revolution. What do you see as the next culture-sweeping technological innovation?

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The interview predates Wozniak's renewed 2023 warnings about malicious use and his later collective superintelligence endorsement, so it is not evidence of his latest position.
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We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do.

Signed statement: “Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial AI” (FLI)

Steve Wozniak

co-founder of Apple

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Steve Wozniak signed Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial AI, which calls for expanded research to ensure increasingly capable AI systems are robust, beneficial, and do what people want them to do.

co-founder of AppleDate not establishedResearch Priorities for Robust and Beneficial AI

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for Applied Computational Science Adrian Weller, Cambridge, AI researcher Jacob Steinhardt, Stanford, AI Ph.D. student Nick Hay, Berkeley, AI Ph.D. student Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype, CSER and FLI Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla Motors Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Luke Nosek, Founders Fund Aaron VanDevender, Founders Fund Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT, Professor at and director of MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Margaret Boden, U.

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