AI Existential Risk: Is AI a Threat to Humanity?
Artificial intelligence and the rapid growth of AI technology have prompted a surge of "doomerism", which suggests that AI will eventually surpass human control and lead to widespread disaster. What this narrative ignores, however, are the genuine threats that AI poses in the present and near future, especially when dictated by less-than-ethical human actors.
"Everything horrible that human intelligence can do, artificial intelligence might be programmed to do as well as or better than humans," Green said. "There are vastly more chances that humans might use AI for existentially risky purposes than there are chances that AI would just pursue these goals on its own."
Brian Green, director of technology ethics and co-author of the ITEC Handbook, quoted by TechTarget.