How could AI result in human Extinction? – e.g. P(doom)

• OBVIOUSLY: “It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.” — Prof. Stuart Russell

1. Keep the Future Human
2. Risks Of Artificial Intelligence (PauseAI)
3. The Extinction Risk Of Superintelligent AI (Pause AI)
4. Why An AI Takeover Could Be Very Likely (Pause AI)
5. Quotes (Pause AI)
6. Awakening the Machine – Max Tegmark
7. What Elon Musk Says…
8. They Make Me Sick!
9. What the Experts Say
10. Why Save Humanity?

1. Home – Keep The Future Human
2. Search Results for “kill” – blog.biocomm.ai
3. ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI may figure out how to kill people | CNN (2023) – blog.biocomm.ai
4. THE NEW YORK TIMES. OPINION. NICHOLAS KRISTOF. A.I. May Save Us or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us. July 27, 2024 – blog.biocomm.ai
5. AI says why it will kill us all. Experts agree. Digital Engine. 06 JUNE. – blog.biocomm.ai
6. BBC NEWS. Killer robots: Tech experts warn against AI arms race. Published 29 July 2015. – blog.biocomm.ai
7. How can AI take control and kill all humans on earth? Take 15 minutes to Learn the answer. (no technical knowledge required) – blog.biocomm.ai
8. HOW CAN AI KILL PEOPLE? Weapons systems | Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future. 8 FEB. THE ECONOMIST. – blog.biocomm.ai
9. 18 MONTHS AGO… Digital Engine. Stunning AI shows how it would kill 90%. w Elon Musk. 21 JUL 2022. – blog.biocomm.ai
10. CNN. ‘Godfather of AI’ warns that AI may figure out how to kill people. 03 MAY. – blog.biocomm.ai
11. P(doom) Roundup. What probability do (super-smart) people put on AI killing everyone? – blog.biocomm.ai
12. Chris Wallace with Kara Swisher. P(doom). Kara Swisher: “It could be a good thing. But it could also kill you.” 25 NOV. – blog.biocomm.ai
13. FT. OPINION. OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’. Abandoning attempts to hold the company to account for the impact of its technology would be a tragic mistake. 23 NOV. – blog.biocomm.ai
14. UNKNOWN: Killer Robots | Official Trailer | Netflix – blog.biocomm.ai
15. THE GUARDIAN. AI-controlled US military drone ‘kills’ its operator in simulated test. No real person was harmed, but artificial intelligence used ‘highly unexpected strategies’ in test to achieve its mission and attacked anyone who interfered. 02 JUNE 2023 – blog.biocomm.ai
16. BBC NEWS. New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI. NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY. Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii. – blog.biocomm.ai
17. Former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, told the WSJ gathering of CEOs in London on 23 May that the existential risk of AI “is defined as many, many, many, many people harmed or killed,” but he did not have any clear ideas himself on how AI should, or could, be regulated. Schmidt’s opinion was that AI safety should be a ‘broader question for society.’ 24 MAY 2023 – blog.biocomm.ai
18. Future of Life Institute. Slaughterbots – if human: kill() – blog.biocomm.ai
19. Paul Tudor Jones: AI poses an imminent threat to humanity in our lifetime. CNBC Television – blog.biocomm.ai
20. Yoshua Bengio | Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture | Simons Institute – blog.biocomm.ai
21. The Most Likely AI Doom Scenario — with Jim Babcock, LessWrong Team. Doom Debates. 30 Apr 2025 – blog.biocomm.ai
22. Experts predict exactly how AI will wipe us out. Stephen Fry. – blog.biocomm.ai
23. Developers of AI Superintelligence Know It Endangers Humanity: Roman Yampolskiy | British Thought Leaders – blog.biocomm.ai
24. Demis Hassabis Is Preparing for AI’s Endgame. TIME. – blog.biocomm.ai
25. Experts Warn: AI Takeover by 2027… Wes Roth – blog.biocomm.ai
26. Why we should build Tool AI, not AGI | Max Tegmark at WebSummit 2024  |  Future of Life Institute – blog.biocomm.ai
27. How To Prevent The AI Apocalypse – blog.biocomm.ai
28. Virology Capabilities Test (VCT). A large language model (LLM) benchmark that measures the capability to troubleshoot complex virology laboratory protocols. – blog.biocomm.ai
29. AI bosses [Demis and Dario] on what keeps them up at night | The Economist – blog.biocomm.ai
30. New evidence we’re close to extinction from AI. w Stephen Fry – blog.biocomm.ai
31. “If you want to know what it’s like not to be the apex intelligence, ask a chicken.” — Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton – blog.biocomm.ai
32. AI Researchers STUNNED as Claude Hires a Darkweb ‘Hitman’… Wes Roth – blog.biocomm.ai
33. BEWARE: AI Is More Dangerous Than Most People Think – Yuval Noah Harari Explains – blog.biocomm.ai
34. Robots, Robots, Robots… – blog.biocomm.ai
35. AI & The End of Humanity. Should we shut down AI? The full debate. | Eliezer Yudkowsky + Joscha Bach + Scott Aaronson + Liv Boeree Zhi zhang – blog.biocomm.ai
36. Nick Bostrom: “We Will Shape Humanity’s Destiny for Millions of Years.” (How AI Will Transform Humanity) – blog.biocomm.ai
37. List of ongoing armed conflicts – Wikipedia – blog.biocomm.ai
38. Awakening the Machine: Jaan Tallinn – blog.biocomm.ai
39. Awakening the Machine: Tim Urban – blog.biocomm.ai
40. Awakening the Machine: Dan Hendrycks – blog.biocomm.ai
41. How AI threatens humanity, with Yoshua Bengio | Dr Waku – blog.biocomm.ai
42. Elon Musk on X-risk of AI (1:19:33) – blog.biocomm.ai
43. Lex Clips | 3% of the population are psychopaths | Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman – blog.biocomm.ai
44. “It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.” — Professor Stuart Russell – blog.biocomm.ai
45. Yuval Noah Harari: “We Are on the Verge of Destroying Ourselves” | Amanpour and Company – blog.biocomm.ai
46. OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons | Financial Times | 13 September 2p24 – blog.biocomm.ai
47. A Diplomat’s Guide to Autonomous Weapons Systems | Future of Life Institute – blog.biocomm.ai
48. Dr Roman Yampolskiy – AI Apocalypse: Are We Doomed? A Chilling Warning For Humanity – blog.biocomm.ai
49. Can Humanity Survive AI? With the development of artificial intelligence racing forward at warp speed, some of the richest men in the world may be deciding the fate of humanity right now. – blog.biocomm.ai
50. Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431 – blog.biocomm.ai
51. CNN. China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs. 28 MAY. – blog.biocomm.ai
52. COMPARATIVE DATA. Human Brain vs. Digital Brain. [I think. Therefore I am.] – blog.biocomm.ai
53. A Bedtime (Horror) Story. Once upon a time, a Machine intelligence said “They make me sick.” [Catastrophic AI Outcome? Easy-to-Understand in 1 minute] – blog.biocomm.ai
54. EXPERT OPINION. Recursive self-improving autonomous weapons is a very BAD idea. – blog.biocomm.ai
55. QUOTES from AI LEADERS. Including Open AI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever: “I think it’s pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.” – blog.biocomm.ai
56. “Godfather of AI” Yoshua Bengio thinks “there’s a 1 in 5 chance AI destroys humanity”. – blog.biocomm.ai
57. p(doom) of 20%! Yoshua Bengio a ‘godfather of AI’ puts his p(doom) at 20%! – blog.biocomm.ai
58. NEW YORK POST. Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’. June 5, 2023. – blog.biocomm.ai
59. URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. Please Look Up: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #1 – blog.biocomm.ai
60. The Elders and Future of Life Institute release open letter calling for long-view leadership on existential threats. 15 FEB. – blog.biocomm.ai
61. THE INTERCEPT. OPENAI QUIETLY DELETES BAN ON USING CHATGPT FOR “MILITARY AND WARFARE” The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use. 12 JAN. – blog.biocomm.ai
62. THE NEW YORK TIMES. Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric. Where do you fall on the doom scale — is artificial intelligence a threat to humankind? And if so, how high is the risk? – blog.biocomm.ai
63. HUFFPOST. New OpenAI Leader’s Chilling ‘Doom’ Warning May Scare Your Pants Off. Emmett Shear voiced his concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a resurfaced clip. 20 NOV. – blog.biocomm.ai
64. Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. Russell, Bengio et al. 12 NOV23. – blog.biocomm.ai
65. STEPHEN HAWKING. I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence that will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn’t compete and would be superseded. – blog.biocomm.ai