AI-pocalypse: predicting the threat from artificial intelligence
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Wiping out a tenth of the world? Possible. Wiping out all of humanity? Less likely, but not entirely impossible. We examine how two groups of experts have arrived at these worrying predictions about AI. Education is giving hope to inmates in a maximum security prison in New York (11:17). And, on Britain’s working men’s clubs which have nurtured rock bands for decades (18:00).
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| 1:06.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Oire Uquembe. |
| 1:11.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:20.0 | While many American prisons offer education programs, there's only one that allows inmates to study to graduate level, |
| 1:27.8 | and this initiative is helping them thrive in more ways than just academically. |
| 1:34.3 | And we pay tribute to an accidental hub for British pop culture, |
| 1:39.7 | a home for comedians and notably the undersung incubators of rock music. It's the working men's club. First up, though. |
| 2:17.5 | Lately, it seems that the chances of humanity being wiped out has been high on many people's minds. |
| 2:22.3 | There's the increasing danger of natural disasters from climate change. |
| 2:27.3 | People are dying. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. |
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