5 winners of the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics, say that AI has reached superhuman levels and it is an immediate emergency!
A total of 42 Fellows of the prestigious Royal society signed the letter (linked) and state, “We have all seen the concerns raised by former employees of the large AI companies, estimating the probability of human extinction to be as high as 10 percent over the next decade. Our witnessing of the rise in capabilities of these models in our domain of expertise persuades us that such statements must not be dismissed as `hype’. By the time the situation becomes obvious to the wider public it may be too late to act.”
They also state that none of them have significant ties to any of the AI companies. They also state that a number of them have early access to the top frontier models due to the extraordinary honors they have earned.