247 Language Models are Few-shot learners. Brown et al. 2020. 
248 AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype, Bender, Hannah, 2023 
249 For example: 
1. Professors Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, the two most highly cited computer scientists of all time, and 
winners of the Turing award for their pioneering work in deep learning, have both highlighted concerns around 
catastrophic harms from loss of control.  
 
2. In 2023, a number of world-leading experts from academia, industry, and civil society asserted that “Mitigating 
the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics 
and nuclear war.” Among them were the CEOs of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and over 100 AI professors. 
 

43Frontier AI – Capabilities and Risks 

250 The Fallacy of AI Functionality, Kumar et al., 2022. 

251 Recommender systems and the amplification of extremist content, Whittaker et al., 2021.
Capabilities and risks from frontier AI 