Artificial intelligence may represent an existential threat to humanity, according to experts. The imagined scenarios include attacks with biological weapons, global drone wars, detonations of nuclear bombs, or, more gradually, the accumulation of all the world's economic resources, depriving humans of food, housing, and medications.
These concerns made international headlines when a researcher from Anthropic left the sector, claiming to fear that their laboratory and others were building superintelligent machines that humans would be unable to control.
AI technology has already proven to be a major advancement in human achievements, but the fear that it could lead to complete human extinction has grown among experts and the general public.
The article mentions that, although the potential AI threats are frightening, modern society is already full of various existential risks, placing the AI question within this broader context of global dangers.
