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AI leaders warn of ‘risk of extinction’ from the technology

Jackie Davalos

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New York City | Chief executive officers of some of the leading companies in artificial intelligence, including Alphabet’s DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, joined a growing chorus of leaders warning about the existential harms of the fast-developing technology.

A brief statement released on Tuesday US time (Wednesday AEST) by the nonprofit Centre for AI Safety said: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

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