The real threat of AI – a distraction from current realities

AI is not a threat to humanity.

Mhairi Anitken, ethics fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, says that claims that superintelligent AI is a danger to humanity are scary, but they do so because they divert attention from the current issues.

Mhairi Aitken

Source:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834453-300-the-real-reason-claims-about-the-existential-risk-of-ai-are-scary/