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- Dire warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the latest forms of technology could wipe humanity off the face of the earth rai.
- What are the potential dangers of 'superintelligent' computer systems and should we be worried?.
- AI experts have long termed this threat as very serious. In 2023, hundreds of scientists and industry leaders, including the heads of major.
Dire warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the latest forms of technology could wipe humanity off the face of the earth raise questions about whether governments are legislating fast enough to keep it under control.
What are the potential dangers of 'superintelligent' computer systems and should we be worried?
AI experts have long termed this threat as very serious. In 2023, hundreds of scientists and industry leaders, including the heads of major US laboratories, signed a statement on the 'danger of human extinction through AI', saying the problem should be considered as serious as pandemics or nuclear war.
Stuart Russell, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that if the uncontrollable AI of the future decides that humans are a hindrance to its goals, it could "create and spread new germs" through robots, or it could "persuade people to start a nuclear war, even by hacking early warning systems."
He emphasized that current AI systems do not pose such existential risks. But as technology improves, it can take deadly actions beyond our understanding, such as depleting oxygen from the atmosphere. “We are less intelligent than super-intelligent AI. If you ask apes how humans can destroy them, they may not be able to give all the right answers.
