considerations
as we race
to fill our fields
with AI data centers
we’d be wise
to ask some basic
questions
Is there anything that you would ever see in the field that would make you want to… hit a kill switch? Is there anything that you could experience with AI where you would come out and go, nope, shut it all down?
Trevor Noah, (1984 – ), South African comedian…
question 1
what
would compel you
to shut it OFF
If an AI has the ability to recursively self-improve, that is, it can modify its own code, combined with the ability to set its own goals, combined with the ability to act autonomously, combined with the ability to accrue its own resources.
Those are the four criteria, recursive self-improvement, setting its own goals, acquiring its own resources, and acting autonomously. That will be a very powerful system that would require military-grade intervention to be able to stop in, say, 5 to 10 years time if we allowed it to do that. And so, it’s on me as a model developer at Microsoft, my peers at the other companies, the governments, to audit and regulate those capabilities.
Mustafa Suleyman, (1984 – ), British AI researcher…
founder @ DeepMind, CEO @ Microsoft AI…
question 2
who
controls those
with their hands
on the controls
of AI
Sam Altman 🇺🇸 @ OpenAI
Dario Amodei 🇺🇸 @ Anthropic
Demis Hassabis 🇬🇧 @ Google DeepMind
Jensen Huang 🇹🇼 @ Nvidia
Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 @ Meta
Elon Musk 🇿🇦 @ xAI
Satya Nadella 🇮🇳 @ Microsoft
Sundar Pichai 🇮🇳 @ Google
Mustafa Suleyman 🇬🇧 @ Microsoft AI
Mark Zuckerberg 🇺🇸 @ Meta
—
10 men
from 6 countries
at 7 companies
in control
of the future
of AI
question 3
where’s the kill switch
—
and who
decides if
and when to hit it
helping humans navigate change
in the age of AI
🗣️ thank you B-funk, Joan, Mustafa, Susie, & Trevor.
I wonder how many stop to ask,
Where did these 10 men come from?
And can we trust them? 🙏🏼