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Kevin Okemwa

OpenAI scientists wanted "a doomsday bunker" before AGI surpasses human intelligence and threatens humanity

Sam Altman (C), US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company's co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever (R), speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023.

Multiple users have expressed their reluctance to hop onto the AI bandwagon, keeping it at arm's length because of privacy, security, and existential concerns. According to p(doom), AI safety researcher and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Roman Yampolskiy warned that there's a 99.999999% probability AI will end humanity.

And if recent reports are anything to go by, most AI labs are potentially on the precipice of hitting the coveted AGI (artificial general intelligence) benchmark. More specifically, OpenAI and Anthropic predict that AGI could be achieved within this decade.

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