AI and the Future of Mankind: A Warning and a Call for Safety

Today's date is April 13th, 2023. Since the public unveiling of ChatGPT couple of months ago, a large language model developed by OpenAI, we have been experiencing a continuous, probably exponential, advancement in AI which could cause the world, as we know it today, to be completely different in just a couple of years. One of the latest ground breaking experiments involved enabling GPT Agents to speak with each other, with a human merely specifying the context of the conversation before hand, e.g. "find a potential cure for cancer" and the two agents would start researching and dig deeper and browse the internet, perform researches, run simulations and do calculations that would be unfeasible for most researchers to do. If we'd compare AI to a human, then it would be only a couple of weeks old.