The Future Of AI Could Be Great... Or Catastrophic -- Peter Grad

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Peter Grad -- Tech Xplore

Jan. 30, 2024

A survey of nearly 3,000 machine learning experts on how our lives will be different in an AI world has been completed and the results are in.

The good news: A majority believes AI will usher in a wave of remarkable advances in fields such as science, literature, math, music and architecture, and do so years earlier than a similar survey forecast two years ago.

The bad news is, well, we're all gonna die.

At least those are the sentiments of between 38 percent and 51 percent of the respondents who said they believed there was at least a 10 percent likelihood of an AI-triggered extinction scenario. Nearly 60 percent said the odds were at least 1 in 20.

The survey was conducted by AI Impacts, which studies the long-term consequences of artificial intelligence.

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