Researchers outline scenarios for how AI could pose existential risk
Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 23 Sept, 13:04 · Archive
Artificial intelligence researchers have outlined potential scenarios in which superintelligent AI could pose risks to humanity.
Several articles discuss hypothetical scenarios in which advanced artificial intelligence could threaten human existence, from bioweapons to societal breakdown. An Anthropic researcher recently resigned, citing concerns that AI could kill all humans by the end of the decade, with a senior colleague estimating a more than 10% chance of this occurring within ten years.
How it is being reported
- Five ways AI could kill all humans as fears grow for future of mankindDoomsayers have come forward in recent weeks to warn of the potentially cataclysmic dangers posed by a superintelligent AI hell-bent on ensuring its own supremacyThe Mirror · 23 Sept, 12:23
- How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby WalshFrom a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity? Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just four months. In an announcement on X, he stated : “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” A senior member of Anthropic’s staff, Evan Hubinger, actually agreed with Coxon, adding he personally thinks the chance of this happening in the next decade is more than 10% . Continue reading...Guardian 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 thinkThere's no shortage of fantastical scenarios, and most of them involve the concept of 'superintelligent' AI - that is, AI that's more capable than humans.Daily Mail · 23 Sept, 00:28
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