Bill Maher Issues Dire Warning About 1 Threat Humanity Is ‘F**king Around With’ | EUROtoday

Bill Maher closed out Friday’s “Real Time” with a dire warning about synthetic intelligence, noting simply how ominous its development has been and asking why we’re even constructing a “super intelligence that can outthink us” — earlier than addressing “another scary thing” about it.

“The people who run it, i.e., the people who run the world,” stated Maher. “And it’s like five guys. Five guys who, between them and working as a team, couldn’t correctly read a social cue. I wouldn’t let these guys around a mixed drink, let alone my personal data.”

He stated, “So, just to be clear, what we’re doing here, we’re letting a handful of hoodie-wearing, on-the-spectrum sociopaths, practically robots themselves, roll the dice on species extinction. You see an out-of-control robot and you run.”

Then got here the punchline: “Mark Zuckerberg sees one and thinks, ‘Dad?’”

Photos on display screen recognized the 5 folks in query as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, X CEO Elon Musk and Zuckerberg, who runs Meta. Maher spent his complete “New Rules” section on their work.

“When the people who are making AI are scared of AI, it’s time to shut the whole thing down until we can figure out what the hell is going on,” he stated, imitating President Donald Trump, including he hopes aliens will “save us from ourselves” earlier than AI turns into sentient.

Maher continued, “Because last week, Anthropic, one of the big AI developing companies, announced its newest version of Claude called Mythos, which they say has ‘capabilities substantially beyond those of any model we have previously trained.’”

The comic famous that Mythos was developed to stop cyber assaults and that it may possibly thus “do the hacking” itself, which is why Anthropic gained’t make it public and solely launch it to 40 giant companies — together with Google, Apple and JPMorgan.

“You know, the good guys,” he joked.

Maher stated Musk warned AI may very well be “more dangerous than nukes.” He famous it’s “already convinced people to kill themselves,” asking, “I mean, what was the plan? Just create an all-powerful, self-sustaining super intelligence that can outthink us and then see what happens?”

“Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, says that it’s not that far off when robots can build other robots and data centers that can build other data centers,” stated Maher. “And then what? I keep asking this question. What do we do when everyone’s job gets taken?”

He famous Altman himself stated in 2023 that he was “afraid” of what he was creating, that Musk admitted in 2018 that AI “scares the hell out of me” and that Geoffrey Hinton, often known as the godfather of AI, stated final yr there’s a 10% to twenty% probability that AI is “an extinction event.”

“We’re fucking around with something that has a 20% chance of extinction?” Maher requested.

He closed by stating that most individuals nonetheless suppose you possibly can merely unplug one thing to cease AI from bettering itself, however that every one main fashions will “fight back” and “blackmail you” should you strive. He stated “AI programs are geniuses,” however sadly, “also psychopaths.”

“In war games, they choose the nuclear option far more than humans do because they can only calculate,” stated Maher, citing a latest research. “They have no humanity. They have no conscience. They don’t have that thing that gives human beings pause.”

He concluded, “AI is not like a human mother who mostly has an instinct so strong to protect the baby, she will sacrifice her own life for it. AI ain’t that kind of mother. It’s the psycho mom who drives the kids into a lake — where we’re all happily swimming.”