A.I. and Human Extinction: Are We Living in End Times?

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People have been writing about the existential risk AI potentially poses to humanity for decades. But it was the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee who claimed AI companies are "gambling with our future" in their efforts to achieve superintelligence, that made talk of AI's threat to humanity's existence go mainstream. BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire, hoping for a more sober view from the Nobel Prize winner and Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, was shocked when he conceded that giving AI a 10% chance of eradicating humanity was "not an unreasonable estimate". At the same time, Vice President of the United States J.D. Vance casually admitted in a recent interview that he wouldn't be surprised if "the Antichrist is walking among

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