Tag: AI risks

If you’re graduating college in the next few years, you’re entering a job market that’s changing faster than anyone can predict. Half of entry-level white collar jobs could be automated within five years according to some AI leaders, while others argue this generation has access to tools that could help them build billion-dollar companies as […]

Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about artificial intelligence development are heard. Guido Reichstadter has been camped outside Anthropic’s offices while Michael Trazzi protests at DeepMind, both arguing that the path toward artificial general intelligence poses existential threats […]

One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial companions. This is happening right now, according to a new research lead by Brian Willoughby, a professor at Brigham Young University. The team surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults about their […]

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is often described as a game-changer for humanity—a technology capable of thinking, learning, and solving problems like humans. It promises breakthroughs in medicine, climate solutions, and beyond. But alongside these possibilities lie dire warnings about the risks it poses, including the potential to threaten humanity’s very existence. Shane Legg, co-founder of […]

If you’ve been following the rise of AI, you’ve probably stumbled upon the term “P(doom).” At first glance, it sounds like a cryptic joke or the title of a dystopian sci-fi movie. But this concept is no laughing matter—it’s a metric that quantifies the probability of catastrophic outcomes from artificial intelligence, particularly the existential risks […]