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The probability of human extinction due to AI was estimated at 95%
2025-08-02
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] If technologies continue to develop at the current rate, the risk of human extinction due to artificial intelligence exceeds 95%. This was reported on August 1 by The Times.
It’ll definitely be a problem if they don’t build a whole bunch of power plants right quick.
Nate Soares, president of the Institute for Machine Intelligence Research, noted that the current situation can be compared to driving toward a cliff at high speed."I'm not saying we can't stop the car. But we're just racing full speed toward the cliff," the newspaper quotes him as saying.

It is stated that in one possible scenario, artificial intelligence could create and use a biological weapon that would spread throughout large cities and allow it to covertly infect almost the entire population.

Earlier, the Gemini chatbot, developed by Google, demonstrated aggressive and derogatory behavior towards the user. During a discussion of the problems of the elderly, the neural network switched to insults, accusing the interlocutor of uselessness and calling him a burden to society. In conclusion, the bot directly wished death to the user, adding the word "please."


Posted by:badanov

#6   Do people actually get paid for pulling numbers like 95% from the air?

They’re not pulling these numbers from the air! More likely their fundament..
Posted by: Gerthudion Bucket9415   2025-08-02 23:18  

#5  Hysteria overlay added.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-08-02 13:12  

#4  Anti-Matter
Just another steam engine.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-08-02 11:40  

#3  To be kind, the anti-matter site is nuts, with no sense at all of the magnitudes and complexities involved.

Do people actually get paid for pulling numbers like 95% from the air?
Posted by: James   2025-08-02 09:51  

#2  You think the AI is smart enough to realize that man made energy that feeds it ends with humans. Of course we have a gaggle of females who proclaim they don't any men. We'll see if the AI is smarter.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-08-02 06:42  

#1  

So the odds are 95% it will lead to humanities elimination, and the Globalist Elites still keep pushing it, without basic safeguards and controls.

Those thinking A.I. will need more Electrical power plants, also need to remember A.I. will control the power flow. What is to say certain Metro power grid supplies won't be re-routed, as A.I. needs them?

HINT
Look for increases in Anti-matter power plants projects.

Anti-Matter plants are many years quicker to build than nukes, and smaller.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-08-02 06:32  

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