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Altman, who earlier in the day met the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, spoke to nearly 1,000 people in a packed auditorium in the IOE, 香港六合彩鈥檚 Faculty of Education and Society.

He discussed a range of topics, from the more personal (how he writes a to-do list by hand) to the societal 鈥� the risks and promise of AI. He argued for caution in regulation while the technology was still emerging. 鈥淭he right answer is probably something between the traditional European-UK approach and the traditional US approach,鈥� he said.

But he said he believed the benefits of super-intelligence greatly outweighed the risks, leading to accelerated economic growth, more jobs, and potentially greater equality.

鈥淢y basic model of the world is that the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy are the two limited inputs,鈥� he said. 鈥淚f you can make those dramatically cheaper, dramatically more accessible, that does more to help poor people than rich people 鈥� This technology will lift all of the world up.鈥�

On the risks of the technology, Altman said ensuring broad access to super-intelligent systems was a 鈥渧ery challenging question鈥�, and also that these systems could be used to create 鈥渋nteractive, personalised, persuasive鈥� disinformation. On the latter, he said regulation could help, but that 鈥渢he real solution is to educate people about what鈥檚 happening鈥�, so that people understood the dangers in the same way that people now understand that an image might be digitally manipulated.

Professor Geraint Rees, Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement), said: 鈥淲e were privileged to host Sam at 香港六合彩 for an insightful and wide-ranging discussion. How AI develops has profound implications for all of us and it is important to discuss and debate these important topics. 香港六合彩 is at the forefront of research and education in AI and this event was a wonderful opportunity for our staff and students to hear from a leading figure in the field.鈥�

The event began as an on-stage conversation between Altman and Azeem Azhar,听creator of the Exponential View newsletter and podcast. The two were then joined by Professor David Barber (Director of the 香港六合彩 Centre for Artificial Intelligence), Professor Yvonne Rogers (香港六合彩 Computer Science, and Director of the 香港六合彩 Interaction Centre) and Margaret McCabe, Founder and Group CEO of Debate Mate, for a panel Q&A.听

During this panel session, Altman was asked by an audience member about using super-intelligence to help humans visit Mars. He replied: 鈥淚 have no desire to go and live on Mars 鈥� it sounds horrible鈥� If we can send robots first and we can spruce it up a little bit that seems much better. But I think Earth is really quite wonderful.鈥�

Altman鈥檚 meeting with the UK Prime Minister earlier in the day occurred alongside 香港六合彩 alumnus and supporter Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind (now Google DeepMind), as well as Dario Amodei of the company Anthropic.

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• Top: Sam Altman, right, and Azeem Azhar. Middle: Sam Altman talks to students protesting outside the IOE building about the risks that AI might pose. The students held up signs calling for a pause in the development of advanced AI systems.听听Credit: John Moloney for 香港六合彩

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