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Professor Dave Explains · Monday · 48 min

Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?

With ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, and so many other models, AI, or artificial intelligence, is on the rise. It's everywhere, and it will only become more ubiquitous with time. What does this mean for humans? Beyond the economic concerns of AI replacing many or even most jobs, is AI a threat to human survival? Many scholars say that AI is an existential threat on the level of climate change or nuclear war. Why do they think this and what can we do about it? Is the AI industry doing anything about it? In this piece we will go over all of these questions and more, so watch as though our lives depend on it, because they might! Contact your lawmakers about AI risk today: https://controlai.com/take-action/usa CIAS statement on AI risk: https://aistatement.com/ Anthropic research on agentic misalignment: https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment Watch my other debunks/debates/discussions: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveDebunk EMAIL► ProfessorDaveExplains@gmail.com PATREON► http://patreon.com/ProfessorDaveExplains Check out "Is This Wi-Fi Organic?", my book on disarming pseudoscience! Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HtNpVH Bookshop: https://bit.ly/39cKADM Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3pUjmrn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, and so many other models, AI, or artificial intelligence, is on the rise. It's everywhere, and it will only become more ubiquitous with time. What does this mean for humans? Beyond the economic concerns of AI replacing many or even most jobs, is AI a threat to human survival? Many scholars say that AI is an existential threat on the level of climate change or nuclear war. Why do they think this and what can we do about it? Is the AI industry doing anything about it? In this piece we will go over all of these questions and more, so watch as though our lives depend on it, because they might!

Contact your lawmakers about AI risk today: https://controlai.com/take-action/usa

CIAS statement on AI risk: https://aistatement.com/
Anthropic research on agentic misalignment: https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

Watch my other debunks/debates/discussions: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveDebunk

EMAIL► ProfessorDaveExplains@gmail.com
PATREON► http://patreon.com/ProfessorDaveExplains

Check out "Is This Wi-Fi Organic?", my book on disarming pseudoscience!
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HtNpVH
Bookshop: https://bit.ly/39cKADM
Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3pUjmrn

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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