Guardian Team Hosts 3pm BST Q&A on AI Extinction Risks as Industry Warns of Misuse
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 18
Guardian Team Hosts 3pm BST Q&A on AI Extinction Risks as Industry Warns of Misuse
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 18
Summary
3pm BST is when Guardian technology reporters Aisha Down, Dan Milmo and Blake Montgomery will take reader questions on whether recent AI existential-risk claims are justified.
The discussion follows a week of warnings that superintelligent AI could threaten humanity, alongside debate over whether media coverage is overstating the danger.
Anthropic said criminals, state-backed groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have tried to use its models to design missiles and bombs, create deadly pathogens and surveil dissidents.
Elon Musk added to the alarm by saying AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons, widening scrutiny of both the technology's risks and how those risks are being framed.