Future Risks of Frontier AI

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.

This report from the UK’s Government Office for Science envisions five potential risk scenarios from frontier AI. Each scenario includes information on the AI system’s capabilities, ownership and access, safety, level and distribution of use, and geopolitical context. It provides key policy issues for each scenario and concludes with an overview of existential risk. If you have extra time, we’d recommend you read the entire document.

Original text:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/653bc393d10f3500139a6ac5/future-risks-of-frontier-ai-annex-a.pdf

Author:
The UK Government Office for Science

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.

Chapters

• 0:23 Executive Summary
• 3:34 Future Scenarios for exploring Frontier AI Risks
• 6:40 Scenario 1: Unpredictable Advanced AI
• 10:58 Scenario 2: AI Disrupts the Workforce
• 15:03 Scenario 3: AI ‘Wild West’
• 19:14 Scenario 4: Advanced AI on a knife edge
• 23:31 Scenario 5: AI Disappoints
• 27:42 Frontier AI Risks
• 27:47 Current and Future Risks in Context
• 32:11 AI and Existential Risk
• 38:55 Opportunities