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Newshour: 30/05/2023 20:06 GMT: AI could usher ‘human extinction’

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30/05/2023 20:06 GMT

30/05/2023 20:06 GMT: AI could usher ‘human extinction’

BBC World Service - Newshour, AI could usher ‘human extinction’

Top tech experts warn that the threat from AI is as great as pandemics and nuclear war.

A group of leading artificial intelligence experts have issued a warning that the technology could be capable of making humanity extinct. In a short statement posted online top tech experts warned that the threat from AI is as great as pandemics and nuclear war. 

Also in the programme: The search is continuing for four children believed to have survived a small-plane crash in the Colombian Jungle; and a new national security law has come into effect in the Chinese territory of Macau which punishes any opposition to Beijing.

(FILE PHOTO: A robot equipped with artificial intelligence is seen at the AI Xperience Centre in Brussels, Credit: Reuters/Yves Herman)

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