Experts debate scenarios in which AI could pose existential threat

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 23 Sept, 07:03

AI researchers have raised concerns that superintelligent artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity.

An artificial intelligence researcher resigned from Anthropic, stating that people building AI believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. A senior Anthropic staff member said he personally thinks there is more than a 10 per cent chance of this happening within the next decade. Experts have outlined various scenarios, including bioweapons and societal breakdown, through which superintelligent AI could potentially wipe out humanity.

How it is being reported

• How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby WalshGuardian Business · 23 Sept, 01:51
• How would AI actually kill all humans? Here are the top 5 scenarios... and the most likely is probably not what you thinkDaily Mail · 23 Sept, 00:28

In this story: Anthropic · Jacob Coxon · Evan Hubinger · Toby Walsh

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