AI Industry Leaders Warn of Extinction Risk

Business leaders and public figures, including CEOs of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, have signed a statement warning of the risk of mass extinction posed by artificial intelligence (AI). The statement calls for mitigating the risk of AI extinction as a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. The rise of vast quantities of AI-generated content has raised fears over the potential spread of misinformation, hate speech, and manipulative responses. The signatories suggest regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful AI models.