{"id":147482,"date":"2022-10-03T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/google-and-oxford-scientists-publish-paper-claiming-ai-will-likely-annihilate-humankind"},"modified":"2022-10-03T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:22:35","slug":"google-and-oxford-scientists-publish-paper-claiming-ai-will-likely-annihilate-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/google-and-oxford-scientists-publish-paper-claiming-ai-will-likely-annihilate-humankind","title":{"rendered":"Google and Oxford Scientists Publish Paper Claiming AI Will \u201cLikely\u201d Annihilate Humankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-and-oxford-scientists-publish-paper-claiming-ai-will-likely-annihilate-humankind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Google Deepmind and the University of Oxford have concluded that it\u2019s now \u201clikely\u201d that superintelligent AI will spell the end of humanity \u2014 a grim scenario that more and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neuralink-cofounder-humanity-wrecked\" class=\"\">more researchers<\/a> are starting to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/historian-warns-that-ai-is-likely-to-cause-human-extinction\" class=\"\">predict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/aaai.12064\" class=\"\">recent paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>AI Magazine<\/em>, the team \u2014 comprised of DeepMind senior scientist Marcus Hutter and Oxford researchers Michael Cohen and Michael Osborne \u2014 argues that machines will eventually become incentivized to break the rules their creators set to compete for limited resources or energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the conditions we have identified, our conclusion is much stronger than that of any previous publication \u2014 an existential catastrophe is not just possible, but likely,\u201d Cohen, Oxford University engineering student and co-author of the paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michael05156007\/status\/1567240031168856064\" class=\"\">tweeted<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Google Deepmind and the University of Oxford have concluded that it\u2019s now \u201clikely\u201d that superintelligent AI will spell the end of humanity \u2014 a grim scenario that more and more researchers are starting to predict. In a recent paper published in the journal AI Magazine, the team \u2014 comprised of DeepMind senior scientist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}