Three categories of AI risk, and why extinction is not yet evidenced
Professor Nick Jennings outlines three dramatic classes of AI risk — loss of human control, emergent superintelligence and concentration of power — and argues that moving from possibility to probability requires a long chain of assumptions that has not yet occurred. He calls for built-in safety, oversight and clearer justification from developers continuing frontier work.
Summary
AI-assisted summary of the linked sourceJennings identifies loss of control, superintelligence and concentration of power as the main dramatic scenarios; he cautions that human extinction would require every step of a long chain of events to occur — from vastly greater capabilities to institutional and technical failures — none of which have yet happened, and urges systematic safety-by-design, monitoring and accountability from developers.