Six months later, the CEOs of the world's leading AI companies, and hundreds of researchers and experts, signed a short statement warning that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority on the scale of preventing nuclear war.
On Oct. 30, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a long-awaited executive order on artificial intelligence. The 63-page document tried to address multiple concerns, including the risks posed by the most powerful AI systems, the impacts of automation on the labor market, and the ways in which AI could encroach upon civil rights and privacy.