The year is 2050. The location is London — but not as we know it. GodBot, a robot so intelligent it can out-smart any human, is in charge of the United Kingdom — the entire planet, in fact — and just announced its latest plan to reverse global temperature rises: an international zero-child, zero-reproduction policy, which will see all human females systematically destroyed and replaced with carbon-neutral sex robots.
This chilling scenario is, of course, entirely fictional – though if naysayers are to be believed, it could become a reality in as soon as a few decades, if we humans don’t act now. Last night, dozens of AI experts — including the heads of ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Google Deepmind — warned that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity and that mitigating its risk should be as much of a global priority as pandemics and nuclear war.
