Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers

CEO of DeepMind is ‘not a pessimist’ but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping ‘a middle way’

• AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief

Demis Hassabis says he is not in the “pessimistic” camp about artificial intelligence. But that did not stop the CEO of Google DeepMind signing a statement in May warning that the threat of extinction from AI should be treated as a societal …

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