Killer AI on the loose? Wait! Let’s all calm down about AI’s ‘extinction risk’
For a hot minute last week it looked like we were already on the brink of killer AI. Several news outlets reported that a military drone attacked its operator after deciding the human stood in the way of its objective. Except it turned out this was a simulation. And then it transpired the simulation itself didn't happen. An Air Force colonel had mistakenly described a thought experiment as real at a conference.