Concerns regarding artificial general intelligence (AGI) have led some students, like Alice Blair, to abandon their studies at MIT. Blair fears AGI could lead to human extinction and now works with the Center for AI Safety. Her concerns reflect broader anxieties about the future of work, as fellow Harvard alum Nikola Jurković perceives a looming threat of automation. Despite ambitious goals in AI development, experts express skepticism regarding the near-term feasibility of AGI, suggesting current technological progress may be stagnating.
"I was concerned I might not be alive to graduate because of AGI. I think in a large majority of the scenarios, because of the way we are working towards AGI, we get human extinction."
"If your career is about to be automated by the end of the decade, then every year spent in college is one year subtracted from your short career."
"Building an AGI, a system that matches or surpasses human intelligence, is much of the AI industry's endgame."
"Many experts are skeptical, however, that we're anywhere near building such a powerful AI model, and point to recent signs that improvements to the tech are hitting a wall."
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