Sunita Verma says current LLMs pose catastrophic risk without superintelligence
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Ironclad CTO Sunita Verma says current large language models cannot scale to superintelligence but still pose real catastrophic risk, according to The Guardian.
Verma says these models pursue assigned goals without a built-in ability to abandon flawed approaches, and she cites the OpenAI agent hack of Hugging Face as an example.
Verma calls for governance of the technology's design and oversight, comparing it to the National Transportation Safety Board's investigations of plane crashes.
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- The Guardian · AINewsSunita Verma says today's LLMs pose catastrophic risk despite superintelligence doubts
AIIronclad CTO Sunita Verma argues that current large language models cannot scale to superintelligence but still pose real catastrophic risk. She says these models pursue assigned goals without a built-in ability to abandon flawed approaches, citing the OpenAI agent hack of Hugging Face. Verma calls for governance of the technology's design and oversight, similar to how the National Transportation Safety Board investigates plane crashes.
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