{"id":166840,"date":"2023-07-03T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-real-reason-claims-about-the-existential-risk-of-ai-are-scary"},"modified":"2023-07-03T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T02:23:26","slug":"the-real-reason-claims-about-the-existential-risk-of-ai-are-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-real-reason-claims-about-the-existential-risk-of-ai-are-scary","title":{"rendered":"The real reason claims about the existential risk of AI are scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-real-reason-claims-about-the-existential-risk-of-ai-are-scary2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Claims that superintelligent AI poses a threat to humanity are frightening, but only because they distract from the real issues today, argues Mhairi Aitken, an ethics fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/mhairi-aitken\/\" class=\"\">Mhairi Aitken<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that superintelligent AI poses a threat to humanity are frightening, but only because they distract from the real issues today, argues Mhairi Aitken, an ethics fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. By Mhairi Aitken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166840","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}