Arjun Ramani: A lot of people are worried about AI at the moment. Are they right to be so worried? He says it's hard to say because we don't know if progress is going to continue first, or whether these powerful technologies will actually want to do anything bad to humans. Possibly, the experts are overestimating these risks as well, he adds.
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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