Could AI Really Kill Us All?
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Could AI Really Kill Us All?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202644 min

Could artificial intelligence really wipe out humanity? Claims that AI poses an existential threat are going gangbusters. AI agents from OpenAI recently hacked into another company, Hugging Face, which has people talking about whether AI can go “rogue.” And some current and former AI company employees are raising the alarm. CEOs have called for a slowdown, and one Anthropic employee just quit, saying that the companies creating this tech are putting us all at risk — and adding that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” So — are we really creat...

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Is AI really about to kill us all? Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and this is Science Versus, the show that pits facts against the fallout from AI. We've been hearing for years that AI poses an existential threat to humanity.

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And this is often coming from the very people who run the biggest AI companies in the world. I think AI will probably, like, most likely sort of lead to the end of the world. My chance that something goes, you know, really quite catastrophically wrong on the scale of,

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you know, human civilisation, you know, might be somewhere between 10 and 25%. Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than dukes. Just recently, a researcher named Jacob Coxon, who resigned from anthropic, said that some of the people working on this tech

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