Prominent AI leaders warn of 'risk of extinction' from new technology

As artificial intelligence races toward everyday adoption, experts have come together -- again -- to express worry over technology's potential power to harm -- or even end -- human life. Months after Elon Musk and numerous others working in the field signed a letter in March seeking a pause in AI development, another group consisting of hundreds of AI-involved business leaders and academics signed on to a new statement from the Center for AI Safety that serves to "voice concerns about some of advanced AI's most severe risks." The new statement, only a sentence long, is meant to "open up discussion" and highlight the rising level of concern among those most versed in the technology,according to the nonprofit's website. The full statement reads: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." ChatGPT and other new AI services benefit from a science fiction-infused marketing frenzy unlike anything in recent memory.