AI isn’t going to end humanity ... right? – podcast

Ten per cent. That’s the risk, more or less, claimed a high-profile AI developer last week, that the technology wipes humanity out in the next decade.And he was not alone – over the last few months there has been a string of warnings, resignations and even stories of AI companies losing control of their bots.“I think it’s a crossover moment for the AI safety story because this has been for a long time talked about inside the AI world”, says our UK technology editor, Robert Booth, “but now, the general public and the political class have become increasingly concerned about it.”So how worried, asks Annie Kelly, should we be? Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters