Statement issued by experts, including the creator of Chat GPT

Artificial intelligence will cause the "extinction" of humanity

A group of business leaders and experts, including ChatGPT creator Sam Altman, warned in a statement posted online on Tuesday that the rise of artificial intelligence carries the risk of "extinction" for humanity.

The signatories of the statement, published on the website of the U.S.-based nonprofit organization Center for AI Safety, said combating AI-related risks should be "a global priority like other community-wide risks, such as pandemics and nuclear wars."

Jeffrey Hinton, who co-signed the statement and is considered one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence, warned of its dangers when he left his position at Google in early May.

He stressed on the New York Times that advances in the artificial intelligence sector pose "grave risks to society and humanity."

In March, hundreds of global experts, including billionaire Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and left its board in 2018, called for a six-month halt to research into artificial intelligence technologies more powerful than ChatGPT, expressing concern about the "significant risks to humanity."

The launch in March of OpenAI Chat GPT-4, a new, more powerful version of Chat GPT that was available for use at the end of 2022, was an indication of the rapid spread of artificial intelligence, which is gaining a "generic" character and provides human cognitive capabilities and thus obviates several professions.

American Sam Altman regularly expresses his concerns that artificial intelligence could "seriously damage the world", for example by falsifying election results, or radical changes in the labor market.