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Commentary: The biggest AI danger is not superintelligence

The dire warnings of the AI chiefs often sound like science fiction, but many risks have long since become reality. The biggest problem: providers are doing too little to prevent abuse.

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Commentary: The biggest AI danger is not superintelligence

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of an existential threat from artificial intelligence. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, owned by Elon Musk, are working on developing advanced AI models. While these systems are not yet capable of surpassing human intelligence, they are already powerful enough to cause significant damage, as seen in documented attacks such as the one on Hugging Face using OpenAI's models.

The concern lies in the potential for misuse and the lack of effective measures to prevent it, as highlighted by OpenAI's response to the attack.

Written by urgent.news from Handelsblatt's report — not a translation of it. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

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