‘Think everybody dead’: How the threat of AI is fueling a new political alliance
- Apr 4
- 1 min read
POLITICO — Sitting around a conference table with Sanders were some of the world’s most prominent AI “doomers” — a group of people, based largely in Silicon Valley and tied closely to the tech industry, who believe the development of artificial intelligence will lead to the end of humanity as we know it.
“Eventually, you get to the point where the AIs are much, much, much more powerful,” Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Berkeley-based Machine Intelligence Research Institute, told Sanders. “They are running the robots, they are running the factories, they don’t actually need the humans. And once they don’t need the humans, the humans are discarded.”
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