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How would AI actually kill all humans? Here are the top 5 scenarios

By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW

Earlier this month, artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just four months. In an announcement on X, he stated:

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.

A senior member of Anthropic’s staff, Evan Hubinger, actually agreed with Coxon, adding he personally thinks the chance of this happening in the next decade is…

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