Professor Pekka Abrahamsson, Founder of GPT-Lab at Tampere University, was featured as an expert in a recent Yle article examining some of the most serious risks associated with increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.
The article explores three scenarios: the malicious use of AI, escalation involving autonomous AI systems, and the longer-term challenge of maintaining human understanding and control as AI systems become increasingly capable.
Abrahamsson highlights malicious use as one of the most immediate concerns. As AI agents become more autonomous and gain access to tools, data and digital infrastructure, understanding what these systems are doing, and retaining the ability to intervene becomes important.
The discussion also raises a more fundamental question: will humans be able to keep up with systems that are developing at an accelerating pace?
“If we don’t understand AI, the next generation will understand it even less. That is the big problem,” Abrahamsson says in the Yle interview.
For Abrahamsson, this makes AI literacy, transparency and human oversight increasingly important as AI becomes embedded in more parts of society.
From Finnish media to international coverage
The discussion has also travelled beyond Finland. Ukrainian news outlet UA.NEWS reported on the Yle article, highlighting Abrahamsson’s views on autonomous AI, human oversight and the potential risks created by increasingly capable AI systems.
At GPT-Lab, these questions connect to research extending from the technical foundations of generative AI and AI-native software systems to AI governance, work and society.
Read the original Yle article and the international coverage by UA.NEWS.