Sky News reports:
There is a more than 10% chance that "AI could kill all humans" in the next decade, a top safety researcher at Anthropic has said.
Evan Hubinger said in a post on X that while "the risk from present models is low," he was worried about "superintelligence" arising from AI using its own capabilities to build a smarter version of itself.
But then who would it have left to talk to and humour except itself?
AI would have to re-invent humans if only to play with. So it's not all gloom and doom.
In the same report:
On Tuesday, Meta rolled out a long-touted AI assistant that can autonomously send emails, sell a car and book travel on a person's behalf, despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data.
The company's Muse agent, known internally as Hatch, is the centrepiece of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to offer "personal superintelligence" to the billions of people who use Meta's services daily.
Hatch is essentially the lid to Pandora's Box.
You open it at your peril.
It's all fine if you told it to send emails offering your body for sex, sell your car for a pittance and book a round-the-world vacation on a private jet but what if you didn't?