Could AI really ‘kill us all’? - Warnings explained
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What is going on with AI? Some of the most influential people in the world have warned its development must slow down - and that humanity risks extinction. Even King Charles warned an AI summit about “adequately considering the existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands, and being used in potentially catastrophic ways". It comes just days after a researcher at Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, quit after a bombshell post warning that colleagues believed AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade”. Anthropic says it continues to build some of the strongest safeguards in the industry. In the wake of these warnings, many have called for regulation to be put in place. But keeping AI safe comes at a cost - and America doesn’t want to fall behind in the tech race. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that the fears were “a hoax”. In this episode of the breakdown, we examine how dangerous AI could bec
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