... That same year [1997], Gubrud submitted and presented a paper at the Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, called “Nanotechnology and International Security.” He argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts, making them potentially more catastrophic than nuclear war. He urged nations to “give up the warrior tradition.” The new sciences he discussed included nanotechnology, of course, but also advanced AI—which he referred to as, yep, “artificial general intelligence.” ...
“My concern was the arms race. The whole point of writing that paper was to warn about that.” Gubrud hasn’t been prolific in producing work after that—his career has been peripatetic, and he now spends a lot of time caring for his mother—but he has authored a number of papers arguing for a banon autonomous killer robots and the like.
Gubrud can’t ignore the dissonance between his status and that of the lords of AGI. “It’s taking over the world, worth literally trillions of dollars,” he says. “And I am a 66-year-old with a worthless PhD and no name and no money and no job.” ...
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