Is a Terminator-style AI apocalypse inevitable? Know what shocking research says

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the world's attention, especially since ChatGPT came to life last November. Since then, generative AI has been a rapidly developing field with new advancements announced every single day. Technologies such as virtual assistants, speech and voice recognition programs, and machine learning are ingrained in the programs we use on a daily basis, helping us without even us noticing. Take the film ‘Her' for example, where an AI virtual assistant helped Joaquin Phoenix combat loneliness. However, it's not all sunshine and rainbows, as arguments have been made regarding the consequences of AI's meteoric rise especially if it is not kept in check. The current risks of AI involve technology taking over jobs, making humans lazy and even swaying elections. This is already evident as Suumit Shah, the founder of an e-commerce company, replaced 90 percent of the support staff jobs with an AI customer service assistant. However, the future predicament could involve something much more sinister.

While The Terminator may have been an unrealistic 80s sci-fi film involving cyborg assassins and doomsday, the threat posed by Skynet could very well become real with sentient AI causing existential risks and bringing about a potential apocalypse.

But will it ever happen? Extinction risk experts, super forecasters, and researchers might have the answer.

A report by The Economist on a study, which was led by Ezra Karger, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Philip Tetlock, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, sheds light on a possible apocalypse being brought about by artificial intelligence. In the paper published on July 10, the researchers conducted a survey