AI and the Threat of Extinction

Hundreds of tech executives and artificial intelligence scientists are warning AI poses an existential threat to humanity. A lawyer representing a client in Manhattan federal court submitted a briefing to a judge arguing why his client's case should not be thrown out. In an affidavit filed last week, the lawyer admitted to using OpenAI tool chat GPT to conduct his research. The program even reportedly told him, yes, when he asked it to verify that the cases were legitimate.