A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at risk
AI researchers are debating potential existential risks posed by artificial intelligence, including the development of unstoppable diseases or nuclear conflict.
For years, artificial intelligence researchers have warned 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. Debates inside the AI industry and beyond over the plausibility of these doomsday scenarios have...
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