Finnish Center for Safe AI Tutke

Tutke promotes safe artificial intelligence

Tutke is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation.
We promote scientific understanding of the safe development of artificial intelligence and support research and regulation leading to it.

Artificial intelligence has progressed enormously. Today AI can converse fluently, solve mathematical problems, write code, and create art and realistic video. All this has become possible in the span of a couple years.

Leading artificial intelligence research centers and companies are racing to develop general artificial intelligence that surpasses human abilities in all tasks. Predicting when and if this will be achieved is difficult, but experts believe it is likely to happen within this century. When machines begin to surpass humans, such development may accelerate even more.

The impact of such general artificial intelligence would be societally momentous, similar to or greater than the industrial revolution in the 19th century. If we navigate this change well, it could bring unprecedented abundance and solutions to humanity's largest problems. If we fail, it could lead to issues like extreme concentration of power. In the worst case, we create inhuman beings that surpass our capacity to control them, and lose the ability to decide our own future.

It is important that instead of only charging towards these volatile consequences, we act early to understand and wisely manage the societal risks of such transformative technology. This requires wide-ranging cooperation between researchers, technology companies, and decision-makers.