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Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 months agoIt's 'kind of jarring': AI labs like Meta, Deepseek, and Xai earned some of the worst grades possible on an existential safety index | Fortune
Major AI labs largely fail on safety and existential-risk preparedness, receiving mostly C-or-below grades with significant gaps in regulation and oversight.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
2 months agoYour favorite AI tool barely scraped by this safety review - why that's a problem
Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI scored highest but only marginally passed; most major AI labs received poor safety grades, with existential-risk protections especially weak.
fromFast Company
1 week agoAI expert predicted AI would end humanity in 2027-now he's changing his timeline
In "AI 2027" - a document outlining the impending impacts of AI, published in April 2025 - the former OpenAI employee and several peers announced that by April 2027, unchecked AI development would lead to superintelligence and consequently destroy humanity.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
4 weeks agoElon Musk makes the case for why his $2.2 trillion tech empire is the only way to save humanity as the only intelligent life in the universe | Fortune
Elon Musk believes intelligent life and consciousness are extremely rare and advocates preserving human consciousness via multiplanetary civilization, AI, robotics, and sustainable abundance.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
9 months agoArtificial 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.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
9 months agoCould 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.
fromBusiness Insider
5 months agoForget 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
5 months agoNo 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.
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