AI Pioneers Weigh In on Whether AI Will Destroy Humanity

After warnings from OpenAI and Anthropic researchers about catastrophic AI risks, deep learning pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton commented on the probability of human extinction. Hinton called a 10% estimate over a decade 'not unreasonable,' while Bengio urged taking frontier lab scientists seriously.

• Hinton: >10% chance of AI-caused human extinction in 10 years 'not unreasonable'
• Bengio: current AIs can already hack systems and persuade people to harm
• Aidan Gomez (Cohere): models are the most powerful cyberweapon in history
• Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Musk called to slow AI development