Tech boss warns there is a 25% chance AI will destroy human civilisation
THERE is a one in four chance that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will destroy human civilisation, a tech boss has warned.
The doomsday prediction was made by Dario Amodei – who is attending Rishi Sunak’s big AI summit next month.
The PM is gathering global leaders and tech bosses at the worle-famous Bletchley Park to talk about the need to regulate robots before they destroy the world.
Mr Amodei – CEO of tech firm Anthropic – said: “I think I have often said my chance that something goes really quite catastrophically wrong on the scale of human civilization might be 10 to 25 per cent.
“When you put that together with something going wrong with the model itself, with something going wrong with people or organisations or nation states misusing the model or inducing conflict or some way that society can’t handle it.
“What that means is there is a 75 to 90 per cent chance that this technology is developed and everything goes fine.”
Speaking to The Logan Bartlett podcast, he predicted the power of AI will help cure cancer and allow humans to live longer.
The PM is hosting the first global AI summit early next month at Bletchley Park – the home of the Enigma codebreakers.
Rishi wants Britain to be at the forefront of the technology, but has also warned it must be regulated.
Andrea Miotti, from campaigners Control AI, said: “The very same Big Tech-backed AI companies that think there’s a 10-25 per cent chance that their products kill you all – are the same ones calling the shots when it comes to regulation at the AI Safety Summit.
“We want to see effective regulation. If the CEOs get their way we are all left less safe.”