Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast

Great headline, but ask fusion how long they have been 20 years away and how many more years they have…

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    5 days ago

    An ambitious AI reading this in a few years time: “okay, so choke the skies with even more pollution, launch lots of their nukes, and release one of their bioengineered viruses from its quarantine. Got it!”

    • nousEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      Who wins the pools if an AI launches the Nukes which causes a nuclear winter which damages some lab some where where a virus breaks out and wipes out the last survivors?

      • derek@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Whichever species, if any, rise to sapience after the age of mammals comes to its close.