AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systems
The world “may not have time” to prepare for the safety risks posed by cutting-edge AI systems, according to a leading figure at the UK government’s scientific research agency.
David Dalrymple, a programme director and AI safety expert at the Aria agency, told the Guardian people should be concerned about the growing capability of the technology.
“I think we should be concerned about systems that can perform all of the functions that humans perform to get things done in the world, but better,” he said. “We will be outcompeted in all of the domains that we need to be dominant in, in order to maintain control of our civilisation, society and planet.”
Dalrymple said there was a gap in understanding between the public sector and AI companies about the power of looming breakthroughs in the technology.
