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Elon Musk

Rishi Sunak

Kamala Harris

Bill Gates

Andrew Ng

Yoshua Bengio

Fei-Fei Li

Demis Hassabis

Melanie Mitchell

Sam Altman

Dario Amodei

Geoffrey Hinton

Yann LeCun

Gary Marcus

Max Tegmark

Connor Leahy

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Jaan Tallinn

Marc Andreessen

Eric Schmidt

Norbert Wiener

Arthur Clarke

Irving John Good

Claude Shannon

Hans Moravec

John Smart

There's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.

"Worrying about AI today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

Concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."

Claiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."

"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."

Current AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.

AI is the "biggest existential threat" to humanity.

AGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."

Powerful AI systems "taking control" pose an "existential threat."

AI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.

"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."

Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?

Sexually explicit "deepfake" images, including those of children and generated using artificial intelligence, are flooding South Korea's chat groups, worrying authorities.

BBC News

Hundreds of schools and universities, whose students had allegedly become victims — though unconfirmed — of deepfake sex crimes, were named Sunday on X.

Koreatimes

South Korean media reported one Telegram chatroom with around 220K members, sharing morphed images of students, teachers, and military personnel.

Guardian

National Police Agency data reportedly show that 180 deepfake crimes were registered in 2023, with nearly 76% of the 120 people punished being teenagers.

The Straits Times

The crisis has reportedly turned so severe that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Tuesday called for a probe into the crimes to "eradicate them completely."

Pres. Yoon called it "an exploitation of technology while relying on the protection of anonymity." The media regulator was set to mull the issue Wednesday.

South Korea Battles Deepfake Porn Epidemic

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