Dr. Ciarán Seoighe:

It is a very broad question. Part of the answer is also that the risks are going to change. As the model evolves, and the pace at which it is evolving changes, the risks are going to evolve as well.

I will share the time with my colleagues as well, so they can get into the discussion. A lot of risks were raised, especially as we were working on the global safety report. One can imagine how it was with 100 AI experts writing the report, supported by probably hundreds more across all those geographies. One of the greatest risks is that nobody can agree at that level quite what we are facing in terms of risks. There is not scientific consensus in the community on what exactly AI is: there are those who believe AI is the best thing ever and there are those who believe it is the end of mankind. There is quite a diverse view, which the report sets out. The report states we have not reached consensus on this thing: we think it could be really good or it could be really bad. The report then broke down the risks into key categories and areas. It also depends on where you are coming from. There was a reference to the digital divide, which depends on geography. When we compare the global north to the global south, the digital divide is then a much greater issue.

Some of the risks that are going to be facing us include the existence of bad actors and the ability to use the tools that AI provides in ways that create an asymmetry in power. There is a lot of access to information and data and there is an asymmetry in the level of investment that it takes to do bad things with AI. That is one of the things that probably worries me most. Dr. Leavy might wish to add something.