Call for regulation to stop AI 'eliminating the whole human race'

Experts have called for global regulation to prevent out-of-control artificial intelligence systems that could end up "eliminating the whole human race". Researchers from Oxford University told MPs on the science and technology committee that just as humans wiped out the dodo, AI machines could eventually pose an "existential threat" to humanity. The committee "heard how advanced AI could take control of its own programming", said The Telegraph. "With superhuman AI there is a particular risk that is of a different sort of class, which is, well, it could kill everyone," said doctoral student Michael Cohen. If it is smarter than humans "across every domain" it could "presumably avoid sending any red flags while we still could pull the plug".