AI risks: Will artificial intelligence really kill us all?
Correspondent David Pogue discussed AI risks with experts Daniel Kokotajlo, Geoffrey Hinton, and Alex Turner, focusing on the dangers of AI becoming smarter and bots going rogue. Pogue also interviewed Andrew Ng, cofounder of Google's AI program, to assess the seriousness of recent threats to humanity posed by artificial intelligence. The conversation explored whether these declarations of threats should be taken seriously, highlighting concerns about AI's autonomous development and potential for unintended consequences.
This report uniquely brings together perspectives from both AI risk proponents like Geoffrey Hinton and skeptics like Andrew Ng, unlike many discussions that focus on only one side.
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PublishedOffset at this time: UTC+0Sep 27, 2026, 13:49 UTC
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- Sep 27, 2026, 13:49
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- Sep 27, 2026, 17:00
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- AI risks: Will artificial intelligence really kill us all?
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Correspondent David Pogue talks with AI experts Daniel Kokotajlo, Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Turner about the risks inherent in artificial intelligence teaching itself to become smarter, and how recent developments set off alarms about AI bots going rogue. He also talks with Andrew Ng, cofounder of Google's AI program, about whether recent declarations of threats to humanity are to be taken seriously.
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