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May 2023
49m 36s

AI could usher ‘human extinction’

Bbc World Service
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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 s ... Show More
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