A group of AI experts including the boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the head of Google’s AI lab say that artificial intelligence poses a similar risk of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear war.
However, Cecilia Rikap, a senior lecturer in international political economy at City, University of London tells Tech & Science Daily she believes this latest warning is simply a distraction by the big AI firms.
She explains how the group statement is part of plans to control the narrative around how AI should be regulated and managed.
Researchers have discovered 4,000 year-old plague DNA in Britain, the oldest evidence of the disease in the country.
Pontus Skoglund and Pooja Swali from the Francis Crick Institute tell Tech & Science Daily why the discovery is so significant, and what we can learn from it.
North Korea has failed to launch its first spy satellite into space.
The country’s official Central News Agency said that the rocket crashed off the Korean Peninsula’s western coast after it lost thrust following the separation of its first and second stages.
A group of health and science leaders are calling on the aviation sector to protect passengers from contaminated cabin air.
The International Fume Events Task Force says things like engine oils and hydraulic fluids can contaminate the cabin air, and it has documented reports of it happening over the past six years.
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