AI Researcher Says Humanity May Have Less Than a DecadeSoares Warns AI Race Could Put Human Survival at RiskA Dire AI Forecast Is Not Proof of an Impending Apocalypse
Nate Soares, a former Google and Microsoft engineer, said in a recent podcast that AI could wipe out humanity within ten years. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute president said he gives that outcome a probability above 50 percent.On October 30, AI researcher Nate Soares’s warning that advanced AI could endanger humanity highlights the stakes of scaling systems to exceed human intelligence.On October 30, AI researcher Nate Soares said he sees a greater-than-even chance of AI-driven human extinction within ten years, while podcast host Nicholas Thompson questioned the forecast.