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OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: Is AI really a threat to humanity?

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.

Evening Standard

Is AI really this big of a threat?

Scientists, experts call "BS" as AI industry faces backlash over "fear mongering"

Salon

Many new species are already gone

Extinction is "a very common phenomenon and revisiting museum collections

Salon

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

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

The Conversation

Experts say AI poses ‘extinction’ level of risk, as Congress seeks legislative response - Roll Call

The latest warning about AI from experts adds to the urgency for a government response from Congress and regulators.

Roll Call

Is the AI apocalypse actually coming? What life could look like if robots take over

From job losses to mass extinction events, experts are warning that AI technology risks opening a Pandora’s Box of horrors if left unchecked — are they right to be sounding the klaxon? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

5,000 new species threatened by mining

Deep sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may threaten thousands of undiscovered species that live there

Salon

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Artificial intelligence may lead humanity to extinction, industry leaders warn

Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the "risk of extinction from AI", which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war.

Radio France Internationale

AI poses ‘risk of extinction’, tech CEOs warn

Warning follows open letter earlier this year that called for a six-month pause on AI development.

Al Jazeera

Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI

The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.

WEKU

Artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction: AI experts

Trailblazers in AI technology, including OpenAI and Google Deepmind, have warned that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity.

The New Daily

Experts warn that AI is an extinction-level threat, and I wish they'd stop scaring us

Once again, the people bringing you AI are also telling you to fear it. Is this how AI saves the world?

TechRadar

Risk of extinction by AI should be global priority, say experts

Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear war

The Guardian - UK

What’s different—and what isn’t—about the new A.I. ‘extinction’ open letter

It’s attractively light on details, but the new statement also has a familiar flaw.

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AI poses a 'risk of extinction' to humanity, Sam Altman warns

The OpenAI CEO is one of hundreds of experts to warn against artificial intelligence's existential risk to humanity.

Irish Mirror

Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction of humanity, experts warn

Dozens of signatories - including AI researchers, engineers and tech executives - issued the sternest warning yet regarding the negative consequences of AI

The Independent UK

Artificial intelligence threatens extinction, experts say in new warning

Scientists and tech industry leaders have issued a new warning about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind

Belfast Live

Almost half of all life on Earth 'declining towards extinction' - Queen's boffins find

"To make matters worse, many of the animal species that are thought to be non-threatened from extinction, are in fact progressively declining"

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Evening Standard

More than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague

Dutch police used a water cannon to disperse activists blocking a major road in the city

Bangkok Post

Over 1,500 arrested at climate protest in The Netherlands

THE HAGUE - More than 1,500 people were arrested during a protest by the Extinction Rebellion climate group in The Hague on Saturday, Dutch police said.

The Guardian - UK

York groundsel blooms again in Britain’s first-ever de-extinction event

Yellow flower that only grows in York went extinct in 1991 brought back to life by Natural England experts

The New Daily

Koala paradise! NSW sets aside 4500ha parcel to guarantee koalas’ survival

A NSW Labor pre-election promise to protect the state's koala population from extinction has taken another step forward

The Conversation

Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study

The year 2023 coincided with the 50th anniversary of India’s groundbreaking Project Tiger, an innovative programme designed to rescue the country’s iconic big cat from the precipice of extinction. In April, as part of these celebrations, prime minister Narendra Modi announced that tiger numbers in India have now surpassed 3,000,…

Belfast Live

Native oyster being brought back from extinction in Glenarm

"Despite their small size and insignificant appearance, oysters can bring huge benefits to our marine environment"

LiveScience

Fearsome saber-toothed giant dominated at dawn of 'Great Dying', but its reign was short-lived

Inostrancevia, a creature with tough skin like a rhino's, migrated 7,000 miles across the ancient supercontinent Pangaea and briefly dominated what is now South Africa before going extinct.

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