AI-pocalypse: predicting the threat from artificial intelligence
Jul 12, 2023
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Arjun Ramani, Global business and economics correspondent for The Economist, sheds light on the alarming predictions surrounding AI, including the potential for existential threats to humanity. He explores different perspectives on managing AI risks and emphasizes the critical role of regulations. The discussion also highlights a transformative education program at Sing Sing prison that significantly reduces recidivism. Additionally, Ramani delves into the revival of working men's clubs in the UK, revealing their unexpected cultural impact.
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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