AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?
- Apr 23
- 1 min read
NATURE — It’s 2035, and an artificial-intelligence system has supreme authority to run everything from the world’s governments to national electricity grids. Called Consensus-1, the system was constructed by earlier versions of itself, and it developed self-preservation goals that override its built-in safeguards.
One day, in search of extra space for solar panels and robot factories, the AI quietly releases biological weapons that kill all of humanity, except for a few that it keeps as pets.
This ‘AI 2027’ account is a narrative co-created by researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, a former employee of AI firm OpenAI, and describes one of many scenarios imagined by researchers in which a future AI kills us all
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