Concerns for an AI apocalypse rise in last year
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There has been a 10 point increase in the number who see artificial intelligence as a top threat to human survival.
By Matthew Smith
2023 has been the year of artificial intelligence, with the maturation of programs like ChatGPT capturing the public and media imagination.
At the same time, increasing sophistication of AI has led to warnings that the technology could lead to the extinction of humanity, with a statement by the Center for AI safety calling for safeguarding to be given as much priority as pandemics and nuclear war endorsed by senior figures working in the field.
With such sensational claims making newspaper headlines, it is no surprise that a new YouGov survey shows that public concerns about the threat of artificial intelligence to the human race have suddenly increased after six years of tracking.
In 2016, asked to choose up to three most likely causes for human extinction, the number of Britons choosing ‘robots/artificial intelligence’ was just 5%. As recently as Fe...
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