#existential-risk

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Philosophy
fromApaonline
4 days ago

Longtermism and its Limits

Future people vastly outnumber the living, so minimizing existential risk for future generations should take priority and may outweigh current-generation interests.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
6 days ago

Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind

Some prominent AI researchers embrace letting advanced artificial life develop unconstrained, accepting the possibility that AI could surpass, replace, or even eliminate humanity.
#artificial-intelligence
fromIndependent
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Luke O'Neill: Forget real ale - try the AI version as brewers get a taste for the new technology

fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course

The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) could lead to either a techno-utopia or human extinction.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Could AI Really Kill Off Humans?

AI extinction threat considered plausible by some researchers, but skepticism remains regarding its likelihood.
RAND Corporation's project aims to investigate the hypothesis that AI cannot conclusively endanger humanity.
fromIndependent
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Luke O'Neill: Forget real ale - try the AI version as brewers get a taste for the new technology

Science
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

What the end of the world will REALLY look like, according to expert

Human-made existential risks—nuclear war, rogue AI, and engineered bioweapons—constitute the most significant and plausible pathways to human extinction.
#ai-safety
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Superintelligence could wipe us out if we rush into it - but humanity can still pull back, a top AI safety expert says

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

fromFuturism
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Expert Says AI Systems May Be Hiding Their True Capabilities to Seed Our Destruction

fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Superintelligence could wipe us out if we rush into it - but humanity can still pull back, a top AI safety expert says

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

fromFuturism
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Expert Says AI Systems May Be Hiding Their True Capabilities to Seed Our Destruction

San Francisco
fromIntelligencer
2 weeks ago

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

Young AI founders prioritize hard technical problems, blur living and work boundaries, launch hacker houses, and casually quantify existential risk as 'P(doom)'.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Forget woke chatbots - an AI researcher says the real danger is an AI that doesn't care if we live or die

Yudkowsky, the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, sees the real threat as what happens when engineers create a system that's vastly more powerful than humans and completely indifferent to our survival. "If you have something that is very, very powerful and indifferent to you, it tends to wipe you out on purpose or as a side effect," he said inan episode of The New York Times podcast "Hard Fork" released last Saturday.
Artificial intelligence
fromAeon
1 month ago

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays

In 2000, Bill Joy, the co-founder and chief scientist of the computer company Sun Microsystems, sounded an alarm about technology. In an article in Wired titled 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us', Joy wrote that we should 'limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge.' He feared a future in which our inventions casually wipe us from the face of the planet.
Philosophy
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
1 month ago

Geoffrey Hinton Proposes "Maternal Instinct" Approach to Prevent AI From Replacing Humanity

Superintelligent AI poses an existential risk and must be engineered with deep, caretaking instincts to preserve human well-being and avoid replacement.
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