{"id":169183,"date":"2023-08-07T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-expert-i-think-were-all-going-to-die"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:22:50","slug":"ai-expert-i-think-were-all-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-expert-i-think-were-all-going-to-die","title":{"rendered":"AI Expert: \u201cI Think We\u2019re All Going to Die\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQNcZyQC6sM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no shortage of AI doomsday scenarios to go around, so here\u2019s another AI expert who pretty bluntly forecasts that the technology will spell the death of us all, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-07-13\/ai-doomsday-scenarios-are-gaining-traction-in-silicon-valley\" class=\"\">reported by <i>Bloomberg<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it\u2019s not a so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/godfather-ai-risk-eliminate-humanity\" class=\"\">godfather of AI sounding the alarm bell<\/a> \u2014 or that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-inventor-regret\" class=\"\">other AI godfather<\/a> (is there a committee that decides these things?) \u2014 but a controversial AI theorist and provocateur known as Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-expert-bomb-datacenters\" class=\"\">called for bombing machine learning data centers<\/a>. So, pretty in character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re not ready, I think we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing, and I think we\u2019re all going to die,\u201d Yudkowsky said on an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VQNcZyQC6sM\" class=\"\">episode<\/a> of the <i>Bloomberg<\/i> series \u201cAI IRL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no shortage of AI doomsday scenarios to go around, so here\u2019s another AI expert who pretty bluntly forecasts that the technology will spell the death of us all, as reported by Bloomberg. This time, it\u2019s not a so-called godfather of AI sounding the alarm bell \u2014 or that other AI godfather (is there a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169183","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}