AI researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic warn in new videos that superintelligent systems carry a 10 percent or higher chance of causing human extinction. The interviews collected by Palisade Research underscore control challenges and researcher incentives around the technology.
He added that researchers do not know how to control such systems and that nobody would control them, describing the situation as exactly as dangerous as it sounds.
Nanda explained that he would quit if he did not believe his work reduced existential risks, noting that companies would continue building the systems regardless.
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