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Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience

The Next Big Idea

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The Risks of Artificial Intelligence

The biggest one for me is the internet itself, right? I mean, if somehow someone were able to shut down the internet through some mechanism or use AI. The world would grind to a halt because everything is dependent on it. Some would say a 5% risk that all of humanity will be extinguished is unacceptably high. But we don't think enough about the risks that we're already living with in terms of technology.

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