# Why ChatGPT doesn't understand **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [February 26, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-chatgpt-doesnt-understand/980404 "2023-02-26T18:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 134
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> **[The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough](https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/)** > > One of the earliest researchers to analyze the prospect of powerful Artificial Intelligence warns of a bleak scenario > To visualize a hostile superhuman AI, don’t imagine a lifeless book-smart thinker dwelling inside the internet and sending ill-intentioned emails. Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers—in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow. A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing. > > If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-chatgpt-doesnt-understand/980404)._