AI poses three big types of risk – here’s how worried we should be about them

By Professor Nick Jennings, Vice-Chancellor and President, Loughborough University

The public is currently getting bombarded with warnings about AI, including about the possibility of machine intelligence causing human extinction. After nearly 40 years building AI systems, I find myself asking the same question: where is the evidence?

That is not because I think there are no serious threats. There are, and we should address them. My concern is with the jump from identifying potential risks to suggesting that the annihilation of human civilisation is a likely consequence of increasingly…

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