An artificial intelligence researcher has said that if they were forced to give probabilities, AI will become so sophisticated humanity could be wiped out.
A leading AI expert has issued a dire warning that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of humanity in as little as two years. Eliezer Yudkowsky claims that AI could reach "God-level super-intelligence" in as little as two to ten years, in which case "every single person we know and love will soon be dead."
"I feel things fraying," says Nick Hilton, host of a neo-luddite podcast called The Ned Ludd Radio Hour.
But he s one of the more optimistic tech skeptics interviewed by the Guardian:
Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explain.
A leading AI expert has issued a dire warning that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of humanity in as little as two years. Eliezer Yudkowsky claims that AI could reach "God-level super-intelligence" in as little as two to ten years, in which case "every single person we know and love will soon be dead."