Some creators, including the "Godfather of AI" and a pioneer scientist at OpenAI, say that we are creating a technology that could, in our lifetimes, control and obliterate humanity.
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What AI's top leaders think about its dangerous potential
Not since the atomic bomb has so much money been spent in so little time on a technology its own creators admit could ... wipe out our entire species.
The big picture
The biggest companies in the world have poured so much money into generative AI in such a short time.
Between the lines
Both sides of the debate share the view that AI is unimaginably gigantically powerful, whether it destroys us or saves us.
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