If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks

Mr. Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

If there were ever reason to doubt the dangers of unrestrained artificial intelligence development, those reasons have gone out the window in the last few weeks. What’s next is a vital window of opportunity to slow down A.I. progress so we can better understand these models and avoid the calamity on the horizon.

For years, A.I. skeptics have claimed the technology is merely a “stochastic parrot” trained to predict humans and........

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