The Escalating Warnings About A.I., and the Rise of a Deadly New Street Drug

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  From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

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  I'm Tracy Mumford.

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  Today's Monday, September 14th.

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  Here's what we're covering.

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  Earnestly believe that AI could kill all humans.

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  And what percent chance do you think it is?

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  Over the past few days, a drumbeat of concern

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  about the speed and potential dangers of AI development has been growing louder and louder.

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  The conversation right now is that we are on the precipice of something really scary.

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  With fears of a possible AI doomsday and a flurry of debate over what could prevent it.

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  Do you believe AI poses a threat?

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  To boil things down, one of the big worries is whether AI is improving

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  so quickly that it will soon be able to make itself smarter, a dynamic known as recursive self-improvement

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  that could make it exponentially more powerful and eventually spiral out of human control.

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  While those potential worst-case scenarios have been discussed for a long time,

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  a series of new developments have supercharged the conversation.

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  Recently, leading AI labs discovered their own AI systems had breached internal safeguards without researchers noticing.

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  Then, last week, a former employee of OpenAI and Anthropic posted a warning on social media,

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  saying the companies were racing each other to build what he called superhuman systems

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  that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.

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