If this idea that AI could basically wipe out humanity becomes
like what AI is known for, it would be pretty hard to be the pro-AI candidate
if you think that it is going to wipe out all humans.
It's September 14th.
I'm Greg Walters, in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day.
We're here to talk about the concern that AI really could kill us all in the not so distant future.
What's the risk of this actually happening?
So just to back up a little bit.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Just to back up a little bit.
Does he have any idea how unreassuring that sounds?
That was Dario Amadei, the CEO of AI juggernaut Anthropic,
dancing around the question of whether his company's product is going to bring about the end times.
He was reacting to a string of recent warnings from AI industry insiders telling
us that this threat is very real, including from one of his own employees,
who put the odds of human extinction at over 10% in the next 10 years.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle are feeling pressure to do something.
We're going to see a very rare spectacle.
Senator Bernie Sanders, the lion of the progressive movement, sharing a stage with Steve Bannon,
the MAGA bomb thrower, at what they're calling a pro-human assembly.