AI and the end of Humanity

The "godfather of AI" says he's worried about "the end of people"

Ziv Epstein, a researcher in the Human Dynamics group, discusses the relationship between humans and AI and where it could be headed.

The impact of artificial intelligence on human society and bioethics

Stephen Hawking warned early in 2014 that the development of full AI could spell the end of the human race. He said that once humans develop AI, it may take ...

A Race to Extinction: How Great Power Competition Is Making ...

The means to its programmed ends — crafted by an alien, incomprehensible intelligence — could be prejudicial to humans. The “Alzheimer's” AI ...

Artificial Intelligence and the Loss of Humanity

AI outperforms humans, but only in low-level tasks. Artificial intelligence is a field in computer science that seeks to have computers perform ...

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our ...

Is AI really a threat to human civilization? | University of Michigan ...

Eshete, Rawashdeh and Malik all say how much AI ultimately ends up reshaping our world, and whether its impacts will be beneficial or harmful, ...

The End of Humanity: Is AI Our Final Invention? | by Utkarsh Kumar

There is large number of implications of AI surpassing human intelligence. Currently, humans cannot comprehend how superintelligent AI can ...

Human Extinction and AI: What We Can Learn from the Ultimate Threat

Should that occur, it might be useful to envision a successor to humans able to preserve and hand down its value. One option would be to resort ...

Why AI poses an existential danger to humanity - The Globe and Mail

Many experts warn that the rise of AI might result in the collapse of human civilization, or even in the extinction of the human species.

How AI May Actually End The World | Shelly Palmer

The real threat posed by AI isn't that obvious, nor is it anywhere near as engaging – which is why it is extremely dangerous.

Is the AI apocalypse actually coming? What life could look like if ...

According to a recent study, half of all AI researchers believe there is at least a 10 per cent chance of AI causing human extinction, with many ...

AI could cause 'extinction event for humanity,' US official says

A top US official for cybersecurity said Wednesday that humanity could be at risk of an "extinction event" if tech companies fail to self-regulate and work ...

'A.I. godfather' Yann LeCun: A.I. won't end the world | Fortune Europe

“Will A.I. take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines,” said LeCun, who is also a professor at NYU. “It's still ...

Why AI's top minds think it could end humanity, and how we can stop it

some of those same top minds — including two of its godfathers, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton — are saying that AI could even wipe out ...

AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think

But more and more of these judgments are being automated and farmed out to algorithms. As that happens, the world won't end. But people will ...

Can Humanity Survive AI? - Jacobin

Bengio posits that future, genuinely human-level AI systems could improve their own capabilities, functionally creating a new, more intelligent ...

What Ever Happened to the AI Apocalypse? - New York Magazine

In discussions about artificial intelligence, acknowledging the outside chance of ending human civilization has come to resemble a tic. On AI- ...

Artificial Intelligence May Be Humanity's Most Ingenious Invention ...

A little tiny machine that may end up being the last invention humans ever create. This all stems from an idea conceptualized in the 1940s and ...

Could AI wipe out humanity? - The Corporate Governance Institute

In an interview with the BBC, he said, 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.' It was a stark ...

Will artificial intelligence be the end of humanity or will it be the next ...

AI will never be the end of the human race in it's correct status. AI will only cause the cessation of those communities that are driving the ...