Letter To World Leaders, Signed By Geoffrey Hinton And Yuval Noah Harari.

AI increasingly controls our military, energy and financial systems, but we do not reliably control AI. The risk of catastrophe is growing rapidly, as AI advances.

The Large Hadron Collider shows what’s possible when scientific work matches the scale of a challenge. We need a similar international effort to avoid losing control of AI.

Working on the frontier will require compute resources similar to those planned by leading AI firms. This could be achieved through government funding, or by requiring AI firms to contribute a portion of their compute resources.

These resources can also drive breakthroughs in science and medicine.

Leaders must urgently form a taskforce to plan the most important project in history - to secure our critical systems and an extraordinary future, transformed by powerful, controllable, positive AI.