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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:42:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cristina Criddle, Eleanor Olcott and Madhumita Murgia, *Financial
Times*, 18 Mar 2024, via ACM Tech News
A statement signed by Western and Chinese AI scientists warns that
Cold War-level global cooperation is necessary to avoid "catastrophic
or even existential risks to humanity within our lifetimes" resulting
from AI technology. At the International Dialogue on AI Safety in
Beijing, the experts established "red lines" on AI risks that no AI
system should cross, including the development of bioweapons and the
launch of cyberattacks. Signatories to the statement included ACM
A.M. Turing Award laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, as well
as computer scientists Stuart Russell and Andrew Yao.