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Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?
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Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."
Mar 29, 2023
Time
Fei-Fei Li
"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."
Nov 05, 2023
Guardian
Marc Andreessen
There's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.
Oct 18, 2024
Daily Mail
Sam Altman
AGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."
Apr 25, 2023
Time
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Yoshua Bengio
Current AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.
Jun 12, 2023
Business Insider
Elon Musk
AI is the "biggest existential threat" to humanity.
Mar 24, 2023
Business Insider
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Gary Marcus
"[W]e could have what I would call catastrophic risk rather than existential risk."
Sep 11, 2023
Yahoo
Hans Moravec
"I don't think humanity will last long under these [space-based AI] conditions."
Oct 22, 2024
Generations
Irving John Good
"The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultra-intelligent machine."
Oct 22, 2024
QOSHE
Norbert Wiener
"Disastrous results are to be expected... wherever two agencies essentially foreign to each other are coupled in the attempt to achieve a common purpose."
May 11, 2023
Moms In Prayer International
Geoffrey Hinton
Powerful AI systems "taking control" pose an "existential threat."
May 04, 2023
Forbes
Dario Amodei
AI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.
Oct 07, 2024
CBS
Yann LeCun
Concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."
Jun 15, 2023
Business Insider
Melanie Mitchell
Claiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."
Oct 18, 2024
Wide Open Country
Andrew Ng
"Worrying about AI today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."
Oct 17, 2024
Jing Daily
Rishi Sunak
We could "lose control of AI completely" with "incredibly serious" consequences.
Oct 26, 2023
Daily Mail
John Smart
AIs "by virtue of having far greater learning ability than us, will be, must be, far more ethical than us."
Sep 02, 2024
The Bible Daily Network
Claude Shannon
"I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans."
Oct 22, 2024
eBible
Arthur Clarke
"Those who picture machines as active enemies are merely projecting their own aggressive instincts."
Oct 22, 2024
Creators Syndicate
Andrew Ng
There's a "1/10,000,000 chance" of AI causing human extinction.
Oct 22, 2024
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