AI Doomsday Scenarios Are Gaining Traction in Silicon Valley
Critics say focusing on extinction fears deflect from AI’s real harms.
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Controversial AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky sits on the fringe of the industry’s most extreme circle of commentators, where extinction of the human species is the inevitable result of developing advanced artificial intelligence.
“I think we're not ready, I think we don't know what we're doing, and I think we're all going to die,” Yudkowsky said on this week’s episode of the Bloomberg Originals series AI IRL.