OpenAI executives express concern for the potential dangers of artificial intelligence in public letter

A group of executives, including Turing Award winners, from OpenAI and DeepMind, along with other experts in the field, have warned that there is a risk of extinction facing humanity from artificial intelligence (AI). They claimed that such a prospect ranked alongside other threats as diverse as pandemics and nuclear weapons, and said that it was necessary to mitigate risk urgently. However, critics have questioned what was meant by the term AI and expressed scepticism about such warnings. Many have also noted a trend of open letters from AI experts focusing on world-ending risks that has recently emerged.