"Tech giants are making grand promises for the AI age. The technology, we are told, might discover a new generation of medical interventions, and possibly answer some of the most difficult questions facing physics and mathematics. Large language models could soon rival human intellectual abilities, they claim, and artificial superintelligence might even best us. This is exciting, but also scary, they say, since the rise of AGI, or artificial general intelligence, could pose an uncontrollable threat to the human species."
"U.S. government officials working with AI, including those charged with both implementing and regulating the tech in the government, are taking a different tack. They admit that the government is still falling behind the private sector in implementing LLM tech, and there's a reason for agencies to speed up adoption. Still, many question the hyperbolic terminology used by AI companies to promote the technology."
Tech companies promise transformative AI advances across medicine, physics, mathematics, and human-level intelligence, and raise concerns about potential artificial superintelligence risks. Government officials working with AI acknowledge that agencies trail the private sector in adopting large language model technology and identify reasons to accelerate implementation. Many experts question hyperbolic marketing language and emphasize that nearer-term dangers include model unreliability and the misuse of LLMs to undermine democratic values and civil rights rather than solely speculative AGI scenarios. Perspectives from professionals at the intersection of government and technology reflect both excitement about capabilities and worry about societal impacts.
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