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People have been warning us about the artificial intelligence (AI) apocalypse ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger convinced the world that he was a time-traveling robot. Yet, while it’s easy to brush away fears over a Hollywood-style reckoning for humanity, you can’t deny that AI is now evolving at breakneck speed.
Experts say we’re rapidly approaching the point at which AI programs are going to be able to create themselves, and that seems to scare even the companies behind the technology. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman turned heads when he told a conference in San Francisco, California, that “the world is right to be afraid” of AI’s unchecked development.
