Are big businesses bad for humanity? Signatories of a new open letter are fighting for the right to warn you about the dangers of AI. Are you worried yet?
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Accountability: The open letter warned that AI has the power to result in human extinction. Glossary
Existential - Relating to the state of human existence. Existential dread can refer to grappling with your own experiences of responsibility and death.
Entrenchment - The process by which an attitude, habit, or belief becomes so firmly established that change is very difficult or unlikely.
Autonomous - Having the freedom to control itself or its life.
Extinction - Completely dying out.
Signatories - People who have signed something. For example, there were 59 signatories to Charles I's death warrant; eight were hung, drawn, and quartered after the restoration of the monarchy, while some (already dead) had their bodies dug up and their heads put on spikes.
Retaliation - Counter-attack.
Innumerable - Too many to be counted.
Antitrust - In the US, a set of laws that aims to prevent particular companies from gaining too much power in an industry. Internationally known as competition laws.
Genocide - The annihilation of a people, either through killing of its members, or through the suppression of its culture.