I mention this mainly to note that even if you get close to a consensus among experts, a newspaper website may still write a paragraph about it that gives the imporeesion that the distribution of expert opinion is completely unclear: “However, there is also disagreement in the research community. Meta’s AI chief scientist Yann LeCun, for example, who received the Turing Award together with Hinton and Bengio, has not wanted to sign any of the appeals so far. He sometimes describes the warnings as “AI doomism”” (linking to a twitter thread by LeCun).
To be clear, the statement and its coverage are very impressive.
Here is the coverage on the “most frequently quoted online media product in Germany”: Spiegel.de
I mention this mainly to note that even if you get close to a consensus among experts, a newspaper website may still write a paragraph about it that gives the imporeesion that the distribution of expert opinion is completely unclear: “However, there is also disagreement in the research community. Meta’s AI chief scientist Yann LeCun, for example, who received the Turing Award together with Hinton and Bengio, has not wanted to sign any of the appeals so far. He sometimes describes the warnings as “AI doomism”” (linking to a twitter thread by LeCun).
To be clear, the statement and its coverage are very impressive.