Will AI End Humanity? Inside The Growing Apocalypse Fears
Leading AI researchers and experts are expressing growing alarm over the potential for advanced artificial intelligence to cause catastrophic or existential harm to humanity. Concerns center on the development of autonomous weapons, cyberattacks, and the potential for AI to be used in creating biological or chemical threats.
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The debate highlights a critical tension between rapid technological innovation and the urgent need for global safety regulations to prevent potential misuse or loss of control over AI systems.
The builders of Artificial Intelligence (AI) "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade", a researcher recently said. He said this was the reason behind his decision to quit AI giant Anthropic in early September."No other human activity poses this level of danger," said Jacob Coxon.Since then, many of Coxon's colleagues and other researchers from the field have aired similar views, triggering global alarm.Surveys of AI researchers and safety experts suggest growing concern about the possibility that advanced AI systems could one day cause catastrophic or even existential harm.Nobel Prize Winner and the Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, says that there is a 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans potentially within a decade.
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