Stop talking about tomorrow’s AI doomsday when AI poses risks today

Talk of artificial intelligence destroying humanity plays into the tech companies’ agenda, and hinders effective regulation of the societal harms AI is causing right now.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X You have full access to this article via your institution. Download PDF Open AI chief executive Sam Altman (seen here testifying before the US Senate) is among the signatories of an open letter warning of the risk of human extinction from AI. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty It is unusual to see industry leaders talk about the potential lethality of their own product. It’s not something that tobacco or oil executives tend to do, for example. Yet barely a week seems to go by without a tech industry insider trumpeting the existential risks of artificial

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