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Scientists Were Asked About Top AI-Related Risks. One In Five Think It Could Develop Dangerous Capabilities

Scientists worry that some catastrophic scenarios involving AI could happen in the next five years.

Respondents of a new study estimated that there is a 20 percent chance in the next five years that AI could do something "catastrophic" that harms humanity or results in a million deaths.

Axios reported that MIT and the University of Queensland in Australia surveyed 272 experts on a variety of topics to gauge what the potential risk of AI was in the next five years. The study focused on 24 different risks.

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