Of the manmade extinction-level events that threaten life on Earth, AI is obviously the newest, the least understood, but also the most urgent, if the warnings are to be believed.
The imminence of the threat is highlighted by the recent admission by US-based corporation Anthropic that it has detected and disrupted attempts to use its AI model for “malicious activity”, which could support the development of biological weapons. At the moment, such malicious intent may be confined to ever-frail human beings, but in the near future it could be from new generations of self-generated AI agents, whether open source or closed source in origin.
