Experts: How would AI actually kill everyone?

Artificial intelligence could kill the entire human species, according to people in the artificial intelligence industry. Specifically, they say, it could exterminate humanity within the decade. Politicians, major news organizations, and Sheryl Crow reacted with alarm last week after an Anthropic employee named Jacob Coxon announced he was quitting the AI company because its work was too dangerous. Evan Hubinger, another Anthropic worker, chimed in to put the chance of AI-powered human extinction within 10 years at greater than 10%. “It really is about literally everyone on the planet dying, like the last human drawing the last breath,” said Nate Soares, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and the coauthor of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” “People often don’t believe it when they say this, but I do think that is the most likely outcome,” Soares.