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Daily Mirror
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Abigail O'Leary

AI could be powerful enough to 'kill many humans' in two years, No10 adviser warns

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems could be powerful enough to “kill many humans” within just two years, Rishi Sunak’s tech adviser has warned.

Matt Clifford, who is helping the prime minister set up the government’s AI taskforce, said policymakers should be prepared for threats such as cyberattacks or creation of bioweapons.

He warned of the need mankind fails to find a way to control the expanding technology, telling TalkTV: "You can have really very dangerous threats to humans that could kill many humans, not all humans, simply from where we’d expect models to be in two years time.

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