A report is examining whether artificial intelligence could ultimately pose an existential threat to humanity, focusing on the ways such an outcome has been imagined and how plausible those scenarios may be.
Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy considers a range of potential situations involving advanced AI and assesses the likelihood of the technology wiping out humans. The report is centred on the question of how such an event could happen, rather than presenting it as an established or imminent outcome.
The discussion reflects continuing debate about the possible risks associated with increasingly capable artificial intelligence. It considers both the scenarios being proposed and the uncertainty surrounding their probability.
The report does not establish that AI will eliminate humanity. Instead, it examines the question as a matter of potential risk and evaluates how likely the imagined outcomes are.
