Your stomach might’ve dropped reading the headlines this week with a stark warning from an AI researcher over artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of the human race.
For those who missed it, researcher Jacob Coxon said he’d resigned from Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence research and product company, warning that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” he added.
After a summer of climate change-fuelled heatwaves (and the anxiety that has created), some of us are now trying to navigate another looming existential threat – one that is hard to understand or comprehend.
Trying to shed some light on the situation, Jacob Coxon told CNN how, while the current risk fro...
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