Back in 2023, Bengio and hundreds of other AI experts called for a moratorium on developing AI, saying the research community ...

Yoshua Bengio worries about AI’s capacity to deceive users in pursuit of its own goals. “The scenario in “2001: A Space ...

In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next ...

AI expert Yoshua Bengio cautions that machines with self-preservation goals could threaten humanity in the next 5 to 10 years ...

Could humans suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs? While there’s still a lot of uncertainty around the risk potentially posed by artificial intelligence, some experts have some concerns AI could ...

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, believes there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI could drive humanity to extinction within 30 years. Speaking on ...

My fellow pro-growth Up Wingers, I just ran across a new academic paper that serves as a good reminder: Despite all the calm, cautious talk from AI worriers about “pauses, “ “safety,” “governance,” ...

A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as ...

CNN — Almost a third of the Earth will need to be protected by 2030 and pollution cut by half to save our remaining wildlife, as we enter the planet's sixth era of mass extinction, according to a ...

Sharks were among 44% of migratory species that signatories to a United Nations treaty are pledged to protect that are in decline or in danger of extinction, according to a U.N report out Monday. File ...