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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

FOUND: Will it kill off humanity computer scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of ai | Mind Blowing Facts

An illustration showing a ballistic missile war
A safety expert at Anthropic believes there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could spark an event that wipes out humanity. Illustration: Ales Utouka/Alamy

Does artificial superintelligence really pose a risk greater than nuclear weapons? Is there a significant chance of “a Chornobyl-sized catastrophe”. Might there even be a greater than 10% chance that AI could “kill all humans” in the next decade?

These warnings were issued over the past 48 hours on both sides of the Atlantic about the potential impact of a technology that most people still think of as a more talkative search engine.

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