Artificial intelligence has a one in four chance of wiping out humanity, a leading tech boss warned.
Dario Amodei, of AI researchers Anthropic, said the technology would destroy the world by either going rogue or by being abused by humans.
He added: ‘[The] chance something goes catastrophically wrong on the scale of human civilisation might be 10 to 25 per cent.’
But he told the Logan Bartlett Show tech podcast: ‘If we can avoid the downsides then this stuff about curing cancer, extending human lifespan, solving problems like mental illness… I don’t think it’s outside the scope of what this can do.’
Dario Amodei, of AI researchers Anthropic, said the technology would destroy the world by either going rogue or by being abused by humans.
The world’s first safety summit on AI will be hosted by Rishi Sunak next month
In response, campaigners Control AI told The Sun the same firms that thought there was a chance ‘that their products will kill you all’ were the same ones ‘calling the shots when it comes to regulation’.
The world’s first safety summit on AI will be hosted by Rishi Sunak next month.