Artificial intelligence could lead to the destruction of humanity, some of the biggest names in technology have warned.
A dramatic statement signed by international experts says AI should be prioritised alongside other extinction risks such as nuclear war and pandemics.
Signatories include dozens of academics, senior bosses at companies including GoogleDeepMind, the co-founder of Skype, and Sam Altman, chief executive of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
Another signatory is Geoffrey Hinton, sometimes nicknamed the ‘Godfather of AI’, who recently resigned from his job at Google, saying that ‘bad actors’ will use new AI technologies to harm others and that the tools he helped to create could spell the end of humanity.
The short statement says: ‘Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.’