{"id":183106,"date":"2024-02-19T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-may-destroy-humankind-in-just-two-years-expert-says"},"modified":"2024-02-19T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:23:06","slug":"ai-may-destroy-humankind-in-just-two-years-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-may-destroy-humankind-in-just-two-years-expert-says","title":{"rendered":"AI May Destroy Humankind in Just Two Years, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-may-destroy-humankind-in-just-two-years-expert-says3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-expert-were-all-going-to-die\" class=\"\">notoriously pessimistic AI researcher<\/a> Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you put me to a wall,\u201d he told <em>The Guardian<\/em> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/17\/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse\" class=\"\">fascinating new interview<\/a>, \u201cand forced me to put probabilities on things, I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years. Could be two years, could be 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering what \u201cremaining timeline\u201d means in this context, <em>The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s Tom Lamont interpreted it as the \u201cmachine-wrought end of all things,\u201d a \u201cTerminator-like apocalypse,\u201d or a \u201cMatrix hellscape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notoriously pessimistic AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind. \u201cIf you put me to a wall,\u201d he told The Guardian in a fascinating new interview, \u201cand forced me to put probabilities on things, I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106","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=183106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}