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Bernie Sanders: “There is a 10 to 20% chance that AI wipes out humanity.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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AI Expert Tells Bernie: AI Could WIPE OUT CIVILIZATION

Published | Video Starts at 00:28

Does the rapid and uncontrolled development of AI pose a substantial threat to the human race? Are people like Nobel Prize winner Dr. Geoffrey Hinton exaggerating when they say There is a 10 to 20% chance that AI wipes out humanity. No, they're not exaggerating it. In my professional opinion, based on a paper that we published in the top AI conference NeurIPS recently, they were actually sugarcoating it. (00:28–00:34)

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