42 Percent of CEOs Think AI May Destroy Humanity This Decade

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'It's pretty dark and alarming.'

, 42 percent of CEOs from 119 companies surveyed by Yale University think that AI could, within the next five to ten years, quite literally destroy our species.notes that the consortium surveyed during Yale's CEO Summit event this week contained a wide array of leaders from companies including Zoom, Coca-Cola and Walmart.

The breakdown of beliefs is pretty striking: while 34 percent of the surveyed CEOs say they think AI could extinguish humanity in the next 10 years and an additional eight percent said the same could happen within the next five, 58 percent say they're "not worried" and that they don't think such a catastrophe will happen at all.

A mere 13 percent of those 119 CEOs said that they think the touted benefits of AI were overstated, while the remaining 83 said that they don't think AI's potential has been exaggerated. No surprises there — CEOs have been salivating for some time over AI's potential to save them money by streamlining workflows and, of course,

 

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