Are you worried about the existential risks of AI? Should you be more worried? Or maybe you don’t need to worry just yet? This session explores the potential for AI to cause extinction events, incorporating: a brief history of AI as a discipline the technological singularity the alignment problem whether large language models are really giving glimpses of artificial general intelligence (AGI) or not extinction risks and shorter-term societal impacts of AI This session is helpful to any actuary wondering about AI risks and ethical considerations in their work. The speakers are from the ethics workstream of the IFoA Data Science Community.

Speakers Matthew Byrne, Hazel Davis

Chair: Anandi Shah