Home
AI
World
Politics
Health
Crime & justice
Science & technology
Social issues
Sports
Money
Entertainment
Environment/energy
Military
Culture
Weather
Media






Home
Bias Split
Public FiguresControversies

Sign Up for Our Free Newsletters
Sign Up for Our Free Newsletters

Sign Up!
Sign Up Now!

How our sliders workAboutContact UsNewsletter Archive
MediaFAQGlossaryPrivacy Policy
  1. Controversies

Controversy
Elon Musk
Andrew Ng
Yoshua Bengio
Fei-Fei Li
Melanie Mitchell
Sam Altman
Dario Amodei
Geoffrey Hinton
Yann LeCun
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Marc Andreessen
+6
Status:Open

Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?

Discuss on
LOWHIGH

Claims

Last Updated 4 months ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."Mar 29, 2023
Time
Time
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."Nov 05, 2023
Guardian
Guardian
Marc Andreessen
Marc AndreessenThere's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.Jun 06, 2023
CNBC
CNBC
Sam Altman
Sam AltmanAGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."Apr 25, 2023
Time
Time
+2 More
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua BengioCurrent AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.Jun 12, 2023
Business Insider
Business Insider
Elon Musk
Elon MuskAI is the "biggest existential threat" to humanity.Mar 24, 2023
Business Insider
Business Insider
+2 More
Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus"[W]e could have what I would call catastrophic risk rather than existential risk."Sep 11, 2023
Yahoo
Yahoo
Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec"I don't think humanity will last long under these [space-based AI] conditions."Oct 01, 1995
Wired
Wired
Irving John Good
Irving John Good"The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultra-intelligent machine."May 01, 1964
Archive
Archive
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener"Disastrous results are to be expected... wherever two agencies essentially foreign to each other are coupled in the attempt to achieve a common purpose."Jan 01, 1960
Lukemuehlhauser
Lukemuehlhauser
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey HintonPowerful AI systems "taking control" pose an "existential threat."May 04, 2023
Forbes
Forbes
Dario Amodei
Dario AmodeiAI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.Oct 23, 2023
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCunConcerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."Jun 15, 2023
Business Insider
Business Insider
Melanie Mitchell
Melanie MitchellClaiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."Jul 03, 2023
The Hub
The Hub
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng"Worrying about AI today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."Mar 01, 2016
AllTechAsia
AllTechAsia
Rishi Sunak
Rishi SunakWe could "lose control of AI completely" with "incredibly serious" consequences.Oct 26, 2023
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
John Smart
John SmartAIs "by virtue of having far greater learning ability than us, will be, must be, far more ethical than us."Jan 01, 2003
Accelerationwatch
Accelerationwatch
Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon"I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans."Aug 01, 1987
Housevampyr
Housevampyr
Arthur Clarke
Arthur Clarke"Those who picture machines as active enemies are merely projecting their own aggressive instincts."Jan 01, 1962
Internet Archive
Internet Archive
Andrew Ng
Andrew NgThere's a "1/10,000,000 chance" of AI causing human extinction.Dec 11, 2023
AI FUND
AI FUND

Go deeper

Meta to Invest 'Hundreds of Billions' to Build Superintelligence
Story
1 day ago1 day ago
OpenAI Wins $200M Pentagon Contract for AI Defense Tools
Story
+7
JUN 17JUN 17
Trump Signs Bill to Combat Nonconsensual Explicit Content
Story
+5
MAY 20MAY 20
EC Tech Commissioner to be Questioned on AI Liability Directive
Story
MAR 20MAR 20
Report: OpenAI Building ChatGPT Support for Excel, PowerPoint Files
Story
13 hours ago13 hours ago
WEF: Global Workforce to Increase Despite Risks of AI-Driven Job Cuts
Story
JAN 9JAN 9
Google Warns US Retailers of UK Hack Group's New Threat
Story
MAY 16MAY 16
Italy Blocks DeepSeek AI Over Privacy Concerns
Story
JAN 31JAN 31
Judge Denies Musk's Bid to Block OpenAI For-profit Conversion
Story
MAR 5MAR 5
AI Decodes 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned by Mount Vesuvius
Story
+1
MAY 7MAY 7
California Passes AI Regulation Bill
Story
+1
AUG 30 2024AUG 30 2024
European Commission Withdraws AI Liability Directive
Story
FEB 14FEB 14