AI and the Future of the World

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Both groups actually thought that AI progress was going to continue. The other big reason is there's kind of a multiplier effect of AI on other risks like nuclear weapons. And I could kill humans directly. You could think of killer robots or a virus that gains autonomy and hacks into the world infrastructure, or it could act indirectly by hastening another threat.

Wiping out a tenth of the world? Possible. Wiping out all of humanity? Less likely, but not entirely impossible. We examine how two groups of experts have arrived at these worrying predictions about AI. Education is giving hope to inmates in a maximum security prison in New York (11:17). And, on Britain’s working men’s clubs which have nurtured rock bands for decades (18:00).

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