New OpenAI Leader's Chilling 'Doom' Warning May Scare Your Pants Off

The new interim CEO of OpenAI suggested earlier this year that artificial intelligence holds a level of potential risk for humankind that "should cause you to s**t your pants." Emmett Shear, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, was appointed over the weekend to lead OpenAI after its board of directors ousted its longtime CEO Sam Altman in a shock firing on Friday. In a June interview on "The Logan Bartlett Show" podcast, Shear said he feared that AI technology could evolve until it is smart enough to design artificial intelligence on its own, "fully self-improve itself" and outsmart humans. "That kind of intelligence is just an intrinsically very dangerous thing," he said. Human beings are the dominant form of life on this planet, pretty much entirely because we're smarter than the other creatures now."