Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' Educational leaders at top U.K. schools are taking concerns over artificial intelligence into their own hands, forming an advisory board on the technology and warning AI's risks pose the "greatest threat" to schools. The United Kingdom is predicting AI could make a "transformative change" to its education system, according to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, who said the technology could take the "heavy lifting out" of a teacher's day-to-day duties, such as compiling lesson plans. Following the release of ChatGPT last year, students across the world have reported using the technology to assist with school work, such as for research for term papers. Eight educators penned a letter to The Times of London this month warning that, though AI could serve as a useful tool to students and teachers, the technology's risks are considered schools' "greatest threat."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted his is scared about ChatGPT's abilities, but mainly with how humans will use it Sam Altman recently spoke with ABC NEWS about the company's chatbot and the rollout of the latest iteration of the AI language model, GPT-4. While the chatbot has sparked fears of AI world domination, Altman sees humans as the greatest threat to the technology. 'There will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on,' he told ABC News. 'Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it.' OpenAI launched GPT-4 last week, touting it as more powerful than its predecessor - so much that it could be'harmful.'

Roughly three months ago, Evanna Hu realized something had to change. For months, she and other Asian Americans working in the national security field had heard a startling number of anecdotes about a climate of fear and hostility toward people of Asian heritage. Approval for security clearances were "taking a lot longer" for some government employees and contractors. At the State Department, more Asian American diplomats are facing restrictions on where they can serve and what positions they can hold--a process that has grown so dispiriting that one employee told CNN, "It helps immensely to change one's last name." For Hu, the chief executive of an artificial intelligence company that does business with the Defense Department, she began noticing microaggressions and "not-so-micro aggressions" in her interactions with government officials.

If you're uncertain whether AI is the best or worst thing to ever happen to cybersecurity, you're in the same boat as experts watching the dawn of this new era with a mix of excitement and terror. AI's potential to automate security on a broader scale offers a welcome advantage in the short term. Yet unleashing a technology designed to eventually take humans out of the equation as much as possible naturally gives the industry some pause. There is an undercurrent of fear about the consequences if things run amok or attackers learn to make better use of the technology. "Everything you invent to defend yourself can also eventually be used against you," said Geert van der Linden, an executive vice president of cybersecurity for Capgemini.

The real threat is much more obvious and interesting. We've all heard the prophetic apocalyptic predictions for AI's future. Elon Musk has said that it's our "biggest existential threat" and has likened it to "summoning the demon." Other great minds are similarly vocal about their fears. The late Stephen Hawking said that AI could wipe out human race.

With damage related to cybercrime projected to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021, enterprises are putting more emphasis than ever on securing their digital and organizational assets. While rudimentary machine learning has played a role in cyber threats for some years, today there's talk of the looming threat of malicious AI: AI-powered cyber-attacks capable of causing massive damage worldwide without the involvement of human operators. To better understand the threats and opportunities presented by AI in the cyber security space, we went to the AI Summit San Francisco to catch up with Justin Fier, director of cyber intelligence and analytics at Darktrace – the company putting AI to work on cyber defense. Justin's background is in the US intelligence community, and today works with Darktrace's global customers on threat analysis, defensive cyber operations, IoT security, and machine learning. What are the key takeaways from your AI Summit keynote?

Automated facial recognition poses one of the greatest threats to individual freedom and should be banned from use in public spaces, according to the director of the campaign group Liberty. Martha Spurrier, a human rights lawyer, said the technology had such fundamental problems that, despite police enthusiasm for the equipment, its use on the streets should not be permitted. She said: "I don't think it should ever be used. It is one of, if not the, greatest threats to individual freedom, partly because of the intimacy of the information it takes and hands to the state without your consent, and without even your knowledge, and partly because you don't know what is done with that information." Police in England and Wales have used automated facial recognition (AFR) to scan crowds for suspected criminals in trials in city centres, at music festivals, sports events and elsewhere.

Humanity is going to bring about its own destruction, if this list of top threats to our species is any indication. It feels like the world is already crumbling sometimes, between the devastating wildfires in California, the violent political conflicts that break out around the globe and other natural and manmade dangers. But humanity is still hanging on, even if it seems at times to be by a thread. That might change in the future, however. AsapSCIENCE has a list of things that are most likely to cause the end of days for mankind, and it is a sad commentary on the world we have created for ourselves.

A survey of 50 Nobel laureates asked about the greatest threats to mankind has revealed that environmental issues such as over-population and climate change are the biggest threat. Meanwhile, the threat of nuclear warfare and infectious diseases and drug resistance follows in second and third place. Distortion or the truth and ignorant political leaders also ranked highly, with President Donald Trump called out by name in this category. The survey drew responses from almost a quarter of the living Nobel prize winners for chemistry, physics, physiology, medicine and economics. A survey of 50 Nobel laureates posed the question: 'What is the biggest threat to humankind, in your view?

The president's oldest son, currently embroiled in controversy over a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, is "miserable" as a result of the increased scrutiny that comes with his father's position in public service, according to an unnamed source in People magazine.