Artificial intelligence could trigger nuclear war, scientists say

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Scientists from the Washington Institute conducted a survey
of scientists involved in artificial intelligence research. It was
aimed at finding out what opinion scientists hold about the impact
of AI on society as a whole.
The results showed that 36%, that is, a third of respondents,
believe that the development of artificial intelligence can lead
to catastrophic consequences, such as a nuclear war or some other
catastrophe of a comparable scale.
This will happen within the next century. The researchers' work
is published in the arXiv preprint repository.
At the same time, 73% of scientists believe that artificial
intelligence technologies will accelerate the global industrial
revolution, which will inevitably be followed by serious upheavals
in society.
The development of artificial intelligence, as noted in the paper,
is the subject of long discussions. There are radically opposite
opinions about whether it is necessary to strive for this and what
will happen, what limits in development are acceptable and what
can happen if AI reaches these limits.
Other findings included that 74 percent of AI researchers believe
that the private sector has too much influence on the field, and
that 60 percent believe that the carbon footprint of training large
models must be a very serious problem.
In their opinion, the development of artificial intelligence leads
to the destruction of the environment.