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More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warned that self-improving AI could automate all AI research and cause an "intelligence explosion".
Why it matters: The researchers say automated AI research could compress years of progress and poses extreme risks.
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“More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI.”
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