By now I'm used to reading in the tabloid press dire warnings of AI wiping out humanity if left unchecked, but it's on a whole new level when an article in the staid UK publication The Times adds its voice to the chorus. The article is actually a report on a briefing given Parliament's science and technology committee by researchers from Oxford University on the potential dangers posed by AI if not regulated and tightly overseen. One doctoral student, Michael Cohen, warned bluntly of AI's existential threat to humanity:
"With superhuman AI there is a particular risk that is of a different sort of class, which is... it could kill everyone."
Scary stuff all right, but it must be remembered that there is no proof that such a threat actually exists. Right now it's no more than a frightening theory.
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