AI Leaders Warn of ‘Risk of Extinction’ From the Technology

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Chief executive officers of some of the leading companies in artificial intelligence, including Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, joined a growing chorus of leaders warning about the existential harms of the fast-developing technology.

A brief statement released Tuesday by the the nonprofit Center for AI Safety said, “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.”