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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?

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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.

Fortune

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.

Fortune

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

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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

The Independent UK

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"

Belfast Live

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

Evening Standard

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.

Bangkok Post

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 Guardian - UK

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 New Daily

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,…

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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.

The Guardian - AU

What this film wants you to know about the end of the world

Can we save future generations from extinction? A new documentary offers reasons to be hopeful

ABC News

New hope for Manning River turtles as they mate for first time at conservation park

Conservationists at a NSW breeding facility are "cheering" as they attempt save the Manning River turtle from extinction.

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Reuters

Climate protests over private jets disrupt Geneva Airport flights

Around 100 climate protesters demanding a ban on private jets disrupted flights at Geneva Airport on Tuesday and blocked entry to an aircraft exhibition at Europe's flagship business jet event.

Irish Mirror

Almost half of world's species 'declining towards extinction' - alarming new report from Irish academics

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast looked at population trends in over 71,000 species

The New Daily

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek demands ‘extreme’ action to save maugean skate

The federal environment minister will write to her Tasmanian counterpart demanding "extreme intervention" to save an ancient fish from extinction. Tanya

The Guardian - UK

Climate activists disrupt Europe’s biggest private jet fair

Protesters from Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion and others chain themselves to aircraft in Geneva

AAP

Plibersek demands 'extreme' action to save ancient fish

An ancient fish that's suffered under the pressures of salmon farming could be the first to go extinct under federal environment laws, a hearing has been told.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

They fell in love at Swarthmore College, then went on to help save Rwanda's mountain gorilla from extinction

When Amy Vedder was a student at Swarthmore more than 50 years ago and went on strike to protest the Vietnam War, the refrain from the college was one of support: "Go do something about it."

The Hindu

South African fossils reveal ancient beast's epic journey to oblivion

New remains of a tiger-sized, saber-toothed protomammal were discovered at a farm in central South Africa

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