The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence has instilled an existential fear in "AI doomers," a subset of people who believe the tech will cause humans to lose their jobs, fall prey to a dominating species of rogue superintelligent AIs, and even eventually get wiped out altogether.
And, as The Atlantic reports, some are taking that pervasive fear to striking extremes in their daily lives. Machine Intelligence Research Institute researcher Nate Soares, for instance, told the magazine that he's even given up saving for his retirement, based on the assumption that AI has already guaranteed the final nail in humanity's coffin.
"I just don’t expect the world to be around," he said.
And Center for AI Safety director Dan Hendrycks told the magazine that he's also expecting humanity to no longer be around by his retirement.
Their belief is part of a movement that argues we're mere years away from an AI that evades our grasp and turns against us, a kind of dystopian fate that's yanked straight out of the pages of a harrowing sci-fi novel.
But it's not looking like pure fiction anymore. Numerous experts have warned that we aren't sufficiently preparing for such an eventuality, dooming us to be subjugated — or worse — by a superintelligent AI.
We've come across countless theories of how all of this could play out. Earlier this year, researchers convened and broadly agreed that it's only a matter of time until an AI gets hold of nuclear codes.
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