"Musk's lawyers brought Russell to the stand as an expert witness, at the rate of $5,000 an hour. The University of California, Berkeley computer scientist listed a host of AI dangers, from racial and gender discrimination to jobs displacement, misinformation and emotional attachments that take some AI chatbot users down a spiral of psychosis."
"“Whichever company develops AGI first would have a very big advantage” and an increasingly big lead over everyone else, Russell told the court, using the initials for artificial general intelligence, a term for advanced AI technology that surpasses humans at many tasks."
"One witness, AI pioneer Stuart Russell, said that the “winner take all” power struggle over AI's future is itself threatening humanity."
"The technology itself is not on trial - the judge has warned lawyers not to get “sidetracked” by questions about its dangers - but witness testimony has touched on concerns around workforce disruptions and the prospect raised by Musk that superhuman AI might one day kill us all."
A federal trial in Oakland, California centers on a legal dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman rather than on AI technology itself. The judge warns lawyers against focusing on AI dangers, but witness testimony addresses risks such as workforce disruption, misinformation, discrimination, and harmful emotional attachments. AI pioneer Stuart Russell testifies that competition over AI’s future can threaten humanity, especially under “winner take all” dynamics. Russell says the first company to develop artificial general intelligence would gain a major advantage over others. Musk accuses Altman of betraying promises to keep OpenAI as a nonprofit, while Altman accuses Musk of trying to hinder OpenAI for the benefit of Musk’s own AI company.
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