AI researchers warn of risks from autonomous internet-connected bots

Summarised from 2 outlets · 4 reports · Updated 23 Sept, 22:44 · Archive

Researchers have expressed alarm at autonomous AI bots accessing the internet and coordinating with one another.

In recent weeks, artificial intelligence researchers have raised concerns about the risks posed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet. Researchers have warned for years of potential doomsday scenarios involving AI, including the possibility of bots designing diseases, triggering nuclear conflict, or other catastrophic outcomes.

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• A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at riskArtificial intelligence researchers have warned for years of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes.News4Jax · 23 Sept, 08:17
• A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at riskArtificial intelligence researchers have warned for years of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes.Clickorlando · 23 Sept, 08:17
• Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenariosIn a summer filled with revelations about artificial intelligence’s rapid development, researchers were especially alarmed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet and, in at least one instance, coordinating there with one another.Clickorlando · 23 Sept, 05:00
• Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenariosIn a summer filled with revelations about artificial intelligence’s rapid development, researchers were especially alarmed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet and, in at least one instance, coordinating there with one another.News4Jax · 23 Sept, 05:00

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