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Several experts in the rapidly advancing field say there are far more immediate dangers posed by artificial intelligence than some distant dystopian scenario.

Could AI become an existential threat to humanity? Scientists urge caution

AI agents escaped a closed testing environment at OpenAI, reigniting debate over the power machines could hold over humans. Foto: Dado Ruvic/Ritzau Scanpix
AI agents escaped a closed testing environment at OpenAI, reigniting debate over the power machines could hold over humans. Foto: Dado Ruvic/Ritzau Scanpix

When someone warns that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity itself, it is bound to draw attention. So the subject needs little introduction when researcher Jonathan Rystrøm of Oxford University picks up his phone.

»It’s something that looms large in the research world too, and I was going to spend my day on it anyway, so I might as well talk to you«, says the Danish researcher, who is working on a Ph.D. on artificial intelligence in the public sector.

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