AI and the Question of Human Extinction

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If you watched the news recently, you may have noticed that the warnings from people inside the AI community have become considerably more serious.

AI — the possibility that it could eventually eliminate humanity.

Researchers at Anthropic, along with current and former researchers associated with OpenAI, are now publicly discussing the possibility that sufficiently advanced AI could pose an extinction-level threat within the next decade. They are not saying extinction is certain. They are saying the probability is large enough that we should take it seriously.

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