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Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath

If we're going to label AI an 'extinction risk', we need to clarify how it could happen

This is not the first time that AI has been described as an existential threat. Nouskrabs/Shutterstock

This week a group of well-known and reputable AI researchers signed a statement consisting of 22 words:

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

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