Robot Takeover? Not Quite. Here’s What Ai Doomsday Would Look Like

Alarm over artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch in recent months, with industry leaders warning AI could lead to human extinction. Experts say the reality could be more drawn out and less cinematic, with AI destabilizing civilizations in the form of escalating misinformation, manipulation of human users, and a huge transformation of the labor market. AI technologies have been around for decades, but the speed with which language learning models have entered the mainstream has intensified longstanding concerns. Tech companies have entered a kind of arms race, creating a perfect storm that has experts worried about the path we are on.