AI is likely cause of human extinction, OpenAI board member warns
Tech Desk
OpenAI Foundation board member and Alignment Research Center executive director Paul Cristiano told an audience at the Toronto Convention Centre during a lecture series this week that, in his view, an AI accident is the most likely reason most people in the room will die.
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In the opening talk of a three‑part series, Cristiano warned of an imminent “AI takeover”, defining it as a situation where goal‑pursuing AI systems “call the shots in the same sense that humans today call the shots and what happens on Earth” and where any human attempt to stop them would be as ineffective as trying to halt the US military. He said such a scenario could lead to mass fatalities and possibly make the planet uninhabitable for humans.
"I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident," Cristiano said.
