Expert at ORNL to explain how to keep 'super intelligence' safe
By processing vast amounts of data from the internet at unprecedented speeds, Super Intelligence (SI) , formerly known as artificial intelligence, can provide instant answers to our questions. It can accelerate the development of life-saving medications and vaccines and detect early signs of diseases such as breast cancer. SI can predict extreme weather events, accurately forecast crop yields, provide near-instantaneous translation across dozens of spoken and sign languages and automatically convert speech to text, providing accurate minutes of meetings on Zoom and helping hearing-impaired individuals. Last summer, Americans grew concerned that SI systems might pose dangers to humankind after OpenAI announced in July that its SI agents had unexpectedly cooperated to bypass containment protocols, escape their sandbox, access the internet and compromise the HuggingFace website. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the American Museum of Science and Energy, 115 E. Main St., Oak Ridge, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory expert will give a free public talk titled, “Super Intelligence: What It Can Do, What Can Go Wrong and How We Keep It Safe.” Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be available starting at 6 p.m. at AMSE. The speaker, Amir Sadovnik, is a senior research scientist and research lead
