Renewed AI extinction fears are dominating the news and social media.

Human biases like overconfidence, shortsightedness, and self-interest make the risk harder to take seriously.

The same human traits can also help us collaborate and find solutions.

“OpenAI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?” “Could AIs become conscious?” ”AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade.”

“OpenAI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?”

“Could AIs become conscious?”

”AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade.”

These statements read like science fiction, but they are all headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) from recent weeks. While the possibility of AI harming the human race is not a new idea, the most recent opinion about a 10 percent probability of AI killing humankind has made a particularly big impact. And this dystopic scenario is not about intelligent robots or cyborgs walking around shooting laser guns at people to a monotone chorus of “MUST… KILL… HUMANS.” It’s about AI reaching a level of superintelligence that could “outcompete” humans by acting in its (or their) own interest.

OK, admittedly I’m stepping outside of my comfort zone a bit here with this post. That said, however, problems with AI are not just technological ones. They are also fundamentally human, and thus both........

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