AI Extinction-Level Threat
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, your daily source of market news and analysis. |
| 0:07.0 | Good morning. Today is Wednesday, May 31st, and I'm your host, Kim Khan. |
| 0:12.0 | Our top stories today. |
| 0:14.0 | AI experts and creators weren't about extinction risk on par with nuclear war. |
| 0:18.0 | The debt ceiling bill clears another hurdle as a four vote nears. |
| 0:22.0 | Twitter is worth just a third of what Elon Musk there's another hurdle as a four vote nears. |
| 0:22.8 | Twitter is worth just a third of what Elon Musk paid, |
| 0:25.3 | fidelity says. |
| 0:26.8 | Leading today's news, AI remains the must have |
| 0:29.8 | in tech earnings calls, but experts are |
| 0:31.7 | warning about the dangers it poses. |
| 0:34.0 | A group of tech executives and others associated with AI penned a letter saying the risk |
| 0:38.7 | linked to the technology are on par with pandemics and nuclear war. They wrote, |
| 0:43.6 | mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority |
| 0:47.6 | alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war. |
| 0:52.4 | The letter was released by the Center for AI. such as Pandemics and Nuclear War. |
| 0:53.0 | The letter was released by the Center for AI Safety and was signed by Open AI CEO Sam Altman, |
| 0:58.8 | executives from Microsoft and Google, and several other companies and universities. |
| 1:03.0 | Open AI has received billions in funding from Microsoft, |
| 1:06.0 | which has integrated the popular chat GPT into many of its products and services. |
| 1:11.0 | Earlier this month, a poll found that nearly two-thirds of |
| 1:14.8 | Americans think AI poses a risk to humanity. In March, big tech names like Elon Musk and |
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