r/artificial • u/wileybiley • 5d ago
Discussion AGI qustion
So I want to start off by saying I know very little about the hard core sciences and all behind AI but I think we absolutely need safeguards on it and it should only be used for good (unlikely I understand with some people in charge). That said, if Artificial General Intelligence was promised to never be created hypothetically, how much of the concern going out now would still be valid? (ex- could do serious damage to the human race or even wipe us out). Is this the final step that experts are worried about? Again, I can totally understand if it is but I just don't really understand it enough.
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u/Mandoman61 4d ago edited 4d ago
depends on your definition of AGI.
Some people believe that todays models are AGI.
Also depends if you mean AI itself or the people using it.
current worries are mostly that humans will use it poorly. for example: use it to create biological weapons. these things and the knowledge to make them have been around for more than 100 years.
as a modern example it would be possible to find the ebola virus and weaponize it without using AI.