Doctors warn about AI's "existential threat to humanity

Artificial intelligence poses "an existential threat to humanity" akin to
nuclear weapons in the 1980s and should be reined in until it can be
properly regulated, an international group of doctors and public health
experts warned Tuesday in *BMJ Global Health
<https://globalhealth.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010435>*.

What they're saying: "With exponential growth in AI research and
development, the window of opportunity to avoid serious and potentially
existential harms is closing," wrote the authors, among them experts from
the International Physicians for the …

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