A recent survey showed that half of AI researchers give AI at least a 10% chance of causing human extinction. Many companies are working to build artificial general intelligence, defined as AI that can learn and perform most intellectual tasks that human beings can. Blow: Most influential responses have been a combination of denial, mockery, and resignation so darkly comical it's deserving of an Oscar.
A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI"
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