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Preventing AI catastrophe
Humanity faces multiple challenges, all of which suffer from coordination issues. As a whole, we recognize the need to tackle actions at scale across countries, but struggle to do so. Since we can’t take on every challenge at once, TBC has elected to start with the most urgent: existential risk from superintelligence.
To achieve a good, humanist future where society enjoys gains from artificial intelligence without facing catastrophic risks, we need comprehensive AI regulation that puts safety first. Yet too few people understand how fast AI systems are advancing, the serious security issues involved, and how humans could lose control as models approach critical milestones. Leading AI researchers warn this could begin as soon as 2027.
What’s so risky about chatbots?
Today’s Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots pose generally manageable risks and include:
ChatGPT
Claude
GrokAI
Gemini
However, these LLMs are already showing unexpected, unexplainable, and unsafe behaviors in both training and live environments. If the current pace continues, AI models are on track to grow into superintelligent systems that surpass human capabilities so dramatically that we lose meaningful control.
Nearly every AI researcher and CEO acknowledges this possibility, yet they continue racing ahead. So, just as an ant colony doesn’t understand why its hill and inhabitants are suddenly destroyed when humans bulldoze it to build a road, we will likely not grasp the reasoning or actions of systems that are:
Autonomous
Agentic
Embodied
Inter-connected
Superintelligent
Things will just happen to us that we may not understand, intend for, or have control over.
Since no AI company can predict or control emerging models, it’s in everyone’s interest that no company or country builds superintelligent AI.
TBC champions our position through targeted outreach, education, and advocacy for comprehensive AI safety frameworks and reasonable regulations that prioritize human flourishing.
Will you join us in this important work? Even a small time commitment can make a meaningful difference.