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New York Times: Leaders warn systems could pose an existential threat to humanity.

More than 350 executives, researchers, and engineers from leading artificial intelligence companies have signed an open letter cautioning that the AI technology they are developing could pose an existential threat to humanity.

Threat on a par with 'risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war'.

Know in the back of our heads, it's part of the cultural reference point, that we will create machines that will destroy us. we talked about this in 1968 even. as i'm sure you're aware, sometimes good movies are made because they are terrifying. tell me the movie where the ai machine takes over, makes the world a better place and stops the environment being destroyed. it's not as good a movie, it wouldn't sell as many tickets. i know the man who runs deepmind, and a lot of people who are at the end of their careers are saying we should not be doing this, but we should have talked about the ai ...

A new statement from industry leaders cautions that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity on par with nuclear war or a pandemic.